Clarion 1977-03-25 Vol 52 No 20

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Clarion
N Bethel College St. Paul, MN March 25, 1977
SMP prepares for summer work
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Back row : Kathy Asselin (president), Marty Dennison
(Ecuador), Greg Hanson (British Columbia), Tim Doten (Puerto
Rico), Stan Murach (vice-president). Front row : Holly Schmiess
(Ecuador), Sue Wahl (Japan), Linda Heeren (British Columbia),
Gretchen Kaiser (Mexico).
Bethel caught in middle
- in Arden Hills squabble
by Bill Trollinger
Attempts to alleviate the cam-pus
overcrowding problem have
been temporarily stymied as the
Arden Hills City Council, on
March 14th, rejected Bethel's
request for a permit to build the
proposed new dorms.
The reason for this rejection
stems from a conflict between
Northwestern and its Arden Hills
neighbors. Northwestern has pro-posed
the building of an 1850-
seat auditorium on its campus,
an auditorium (with parking lot)
to be in close proximity to
residents on the northwest.
These residents are concerned
about Northwestern's plans, ar-guing
potential damage to their
neighborhood in terms of the
nearby people and noise. Thus,
they are fighting the construction
of the auditorium.
The dispute revolves' around
legal ambiguities. R-1 zoning,
under which Northwestern is
currently zoned, states that
"schools" can expand facilities
as need be by Special Use permit.
Northwestern argues that col-leges
are included in this des-ignation,
and thus their applica-cation
for a building permit is
legitimate. The residents argue
that this does not include cot-leges
and therefore the college
should be denied this permit.
The City Council was bom-barded
with phone calls and
petitions from this uniquely
organized and motivated neigh-borhood
organization, as well as
by Bruce Olsen
The National Council for Ac-creditation
of Teacher Education
(NCATE) will be sending a team
of investigators to Bethel next
week to check on the education
department at Bethel. The team,
consisting of nine members, will
be investigating the quality of the
department.
According to Dr. Tom Johnson,
chairman of the education depart-ment,
the purpose of using this
accrediting organization is that it
makes it easier for Bethel stu-dents
to get teaching jobs
outside the state of Minnesota.
"It's not that it would be
impossible to get a job without
NCATE," said Johnson, "but it
helps."
The focus of the team will be
on teacher preparation, but there
is the underlying notion that the
team will be investigating the
entire school. "It's very much like
the North Central accreditation
for this school," said Johnson.
The nine member team will be
making their visit this Sunday
and will finish on Wednesday.
The function of the team will be
to verify the facts that Bethel has
put in its report to the team. They
will then make a statement
as to how Bethel is complying
with the standards in the report.
"They don't make the decision
about the accrediting them-from
supporters of Northwestern
College. On the decisive metting
night the residents arrived en
masse (150-200 people) to plead
their case. Because of this citizen
pressure and because of the legal
ambiguity, the City Council de-clined
to take any action until the
technicalities were cleared up.
This is where Bethel comes in.
As stated above, the City Council
rejected Bethel's application for a
building permit for the new
dorms. The basic reason for this
is that if the Council had
accepted Bethel's application un-der
R-1 , then Northwestern would
argue this meant their application
for R-1 must be legitimate. But if
the City Council re-zoned Bethel
to make the application for a
building permit legitimate, then
the residents would assert this
proved their complaint was cor-rect.
The City Council felt com-pelled
to turn down Bethel's
request.
The Bethel administrators have
maintained their neutrality in this
issue while expressing under-standing
for the Council's quan-dary.
"I definitely do not want to
demean the Council in this
situation," Dave Lissner (of pub-lic
affairs) commented. "They
have a terrible problem on their
hands."
So the question is still up in
the air, as Northwestern Bible
College and its angry neighbors
attempt to work out a solution.
Arden Hills Mayor Henry Cre-continued
on p. 2
selves," said Johnson. "They
submit their information to an
evaluation board."
In July the team chairman will
meet with the evaluation board.
The final decision on Bethel's
accreditation will not be known
until October when the NCATE
council meets to verify the
decision made by the evaluation
board.
Will Bethel pass the investiga-tion?
"Yes," said Johnson. "We
meet the standards very well."
Johnson noted the excellent
quality of the state department of
education. "They're very interest-ed
in quality control," said
Johnson. "The state legislature
has continually exerted pressure
on the department to keep the
education standards high."
If Bethel did fail to meet the
requirements of the investigating
team, there is always the chance
for appeal, which would take
from six months to a year. Many
of the schools that are denied
accreditation do appeal their case
and are granted accreditation.
Currently one out of four schools
are being denied accreditation by
NCATE.
This long process, which start-ed
back in February, 1975 with
the preparing of the report, will
soon end. The work that Dr.
Johnson has been doing for the
last year and a half will soon see
its finish for another ten years.
by Nancy Naumenko
Any Bethel student who has
attended chapel on at least one
Wednesday during the course of
this year will recall hearing those
oft-repeated letters "SMP". In the
denotative sense they stand for
"Student Missionary Project";
connotatively they indicate travel,
missions, dedication, and
growth.
The "Student Missionary Pro-ject"
was initiated in the early
1960's and has grown in numbers
and scope ever since that time.
Last year saw the largest enroll-ment
— some 29 students
volunteered their summers — and
this year the number of students
involved is 22.
Its purpose? As Kathy Asselin,
SMP president states, "The pur-pose
of SMP is to give students a
taste of the mission field in a
cross-cultural experience." This
is affected by financially and
F,iding interested s`u-dents
to give time in their
summers for short-term mission-ary
involvement.
However, changes have been
occurring over the years, one of
these being the removal of the
restriction to merely summertime
projects. For instance, Tim Doten
spent the Interim of 1977 travel-ing
through Puerto Rico as a
pitcher for Sports Ambassadors
playing baseball and sharing his
faith.
Judy Brundage is another
example of a non-summer exper-ience;
she is currently spending
her spring semester in Brazil
under SMP.
SMP has its own government
council on campus. The members
involved include: President, Ka-thy
Asselin; Vice-President, Stan
Murach; Secretary, Martha Bar-ker;
Treasurer, Curt Gruber; and
orientation organizers Laurie St.
Claire and Brian Bohne.
Collectively they define poli-cies,
evaluate various mission
boards and prospective student
missionaries, and prepare the
latter for service.
SMP's general policy states
that all students returning to
Bethel for classes following their
SMP experience are eligible for
application. MK's and foreign
students are also eligible provid-ing
they do not apply for
missionary service in their home
country.
Because of their concern that
the students receive the best
possible missionary experience,
the council has laid 'down some
stricter policies on requirements
for acceptance of mission boards
and student applicants.
One means of achieving this
was by taking an evaluation of
last summer's SMPers' views on
the situations in which they were
placed. Included were such criter-ia
as: the cross-cultural value of
the experience, whether or not
they were really needed in the
situation, whether the facilities
were at least adequate, the
cooperation of the mission, and
the training of the mission where
necessary.
From these evaluations, deci-sions
were made as to which
mission boards will be worked
with in future years.
In addition, a greater focus has
been placed on preparation this
year when considering appli-cants.
Qualifications required
when considering applications
include that the student: will be
returning to Bethel, is a Chris-tian,
has motives other than for
personal gain, has leadership
qualities, is healthy and mature,
financially cepahle to raisP
two-thirds of his support and
return to Bethel, and have a
proficiency in the language of the
country in situations where such
a knowledge is necessary. For
instance, Greg Jones will be
working with Wycliffe Bible
Translators in Colombia, in which
case a working knowledge of the
language is essential.
SMP has decided to concen-trate
on the third world (rather
than Europe). This includes Cen-tral
and South America, Asia, and
Africa. Students are also per-mitted
to work out their own
personal programs for reviewing
by the council.
The decision to avoid European
countries stem from several
reasons, one of them being the
temptation of many students to
use the experience for vacation
purposes.
Also, the ministry is not as
crucially needed, as there are an
abundance of churches already
established, albeit they are not as
receptive to the Gospel as the
third world countries.
Other students will go to
places in the United States and
Canada. The criteria for this is
that they be involved in a
cross-cultural experience. Two
students will be working at South
Shore Baptist Church in Chicago,
which is an inner city church.
Other students will be working
with Indian peoples in British
Columbia.
These and the other students
are expected to raise, as previ-ously
mentioned, two-thirds of
their expenses for their time on
the mission field. The aim of SMP
is then to provide the remaining
one-third. As Kathy Asselin said,
"Missionaries have to be able to
raise their support; we want this
to be as much like a real situation
as possible."
The money for the remaining
one-third (this year's aim is for
$9,500) is raised in various ways,
the major source of income being
the weekly student offerings,
which average $115 per week.
Other fund-raising sources are
bake sales, the Scribes concert,
continued on p. 7
Accrediting team to
evaluate Education dept.
Today is the last day
of registration for
summer school. —
Dean's Office.
zoning, continued from p. 1
peau, commented: "I think some-thing
will be resolved in a matter
of weeks. We could settle it in
one evening if the parties in-volved
wanted to."
Bethel's expert in this situa-tion,
Dave Lissner, isn't quite so
optimistic. "At this point, litiga-tion
between the Northwestern
and the citizens' group seems
almost inevitable, as an out-of-court
settlement seems to be a
remote possibility. With all of the
possible appeals actions, this
matter could take a couple of
years. But I am hoping it will just
take a few months."
At the moment the Bethel
administration is playing the
waiting game. One fact seems to
be certain and that is that the new
dorms will not be finalized by
September. Now the purchase of
the Fountain Terrace Apartments
has proven to a boon as freshmen
and sophomore students will be
using some of these apartments.
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The Clarion is published
weekly by the students of
Bethel College.
Bill Trollinaer editor
Laura Alden news editor
Mary Norton production editor
David Shelley copy editor
Peter Blomquist photo editor
Dawn Hart arts editor
Bruce Olsen sports editor
Arlan Swanson business manager
Letters to the editor should be
sent to p.o . 91 by the Sunday
preceding publication.
Olsen ponders needs to Inject editorial competence Into the
Clarion
editorials
Clarion defends right to
express editorial opinions
In last week's vote on the use of escrow monies, students
overwhelmingly approved the scholarship fund proposed by Steve
Hoswell. This proposal was also the Clarion's choice (which we
supported in our March 11 editorial).
However, because we articulated our stance on the issue so
strongly, the entire editorial policy of the newspaper has suffered
severe criticism in the past few days. We understand the
disappointment experienced by supporters of defeated escrow
proposals, but we reject claims that we had no right to express
editorial opinion on this subject.
It demeans the character and quality of the Clarion to suggest that
our editorials be limited to milque-toast, society column subjects. We
feel we must do more for Bethel than patronize the coffee shop.
Editorial writing gives us a chance for thoughtful and conscientious
analysis of campus and national issues; it provides a medium to
counterbalance the routine news and feature copy with opinions and
constructive criticism. In our editorials, we don't claim inerrancy or
objectivity. The editorial statements are catalysts for thought and
action, nothing more.
This issue, of the right of editorial utterance, is actually one of
freedom, the freedom to use an editorial for the public good, the
freedom of the press. Granted, absolute freedom of the press is an
unattainable ideal, especially in a small private college where the
competition of media is minimal.
We do concede the right to expression on issues involving the
personalities of Bethel students. Our community is too small to
verbalize editorial evaluation, for example, of the characters and
qualifications of the student body presidential and vice presidential
candidates. We realize our responsibility to keep silent in these
concerns. In this, we are trying to separate people from issues.
Therefore, we will continue to print issue-oriented editorial
columns, hoping that readers will allow us, within the policy limits set
up for this year (see Sept. 10 Clarion) to act as unofficial keepers of the
student body conscience.
The constitutionally-guaranteed right of expression must be
preserved at every level for the success of democracy. The Bethel
Clarion may not impress the world with its journalistic expertise or its
scope of coverage, but it should be and will be representative of the
freedom guaranteed the press by the first amendment.
Students urged to take
seriously voting task
Student Senate elections are upon us once again. With the elections
comes the effort that students finding so hard, the effort of walking
down to the POs and casting a ballot for either of the
President/Vice-President tickets. The effort is one that we believe will
be well worth your time, for in voting you will be takng responsibility
for the way in which a good portion of your tuition money is spent next
year.
The money allotted to the Student Senate is no small amount;
therefore we urge you, the voter, to closely scrutinize the candidates.
We would also urge you to put some weight into the qualifications
of the vice-presidential candidates. The Vice-President's role includes
the task of moderating the Senate meetings along with the important
role of being the chairman of the Communications Board. This board
is responsible for overseeing and distributing money to Bethel's media
(of which the Clarion is a part).
Every spring the call is heard that Senate is not doing anything.
Here's your chance to get involved. Vote for the Senator or
President/Vice-President candidate that you think is capable of
getting the job done. All it takes is a walk down to the POs and an "X"
in the box of your choice.
Student leaders served
Bethel well this year
In the flurry of campus elections, old student body leaders often just
fade away. Pete Taylor and Dave Johnson deserve better. We would
like to thank them on behalf of the student body for their year-long
efforts as president and vice president.
Pete's determination to upgrade relations with the administration,
maintain equal representatioh on student-faculty committees and halt
enrollment was a valiant effort.
Dave's work with the Student Senate, Senate committees and
Communications Board is also commendable and appreciated.
But now it's time to move up out of the boiler room and into the real
world. Again, thanks, Pete and Dave, for your time and effort.
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Despite a public confession
that he is not even a Baptist,
Bruce ("Oly") Olsen was appoint-ed
and elected Clarion editor for
the 1977-78 school year.
Bruce, a junior business major,
was appointed by the Communi-cations
Board and confirmed by
the Student Senate on March 8.
The vote was unanimous.
Three years of writing for the
paper, including one year as
sports editor, have given Bruce
ample journalistic experience.
Next year, this experience will be
augmented with the talents of
Holly Schmiess, news editor,
Suzi Wells, copy editor and
Nancy Naumenko, production
editor.
"I'm pleased with my staff,"
said Bruce. "They're dependable
and capable people."
Bruce felt motivated to apply
for the job out of a sense of
responsibility. "I was concerned
about maintaining the quality of
the pape r ," he said. "Since
nobody else was seriously inter-ested
in the editorship, I felt that I
should apply."
In addition to the responsibilty
angle, Bruce enjoys working on
the Clarion. "I especially like
seeing the finished product," he
said.
His aim is to "get as many
people reading the paper as
possible." Bruce plans minor
changes in graphic production.
The new Clarion editor attri-butes
his fame to two sources.
"IM basketball and Dorothy
(Drew) have made me what I am
today," he says confidently.
Bruce Olsen
to be editor
of 1977-78
Clarion
by Laura Alden
Riders evacuate Bethel rig after yet another harrowing trip
Rig drivers suffer in martyr role
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Taylor/Johnson
by Pete Taylor
Elections will soon be upon us again. The process has already
begun and you've probably seen candidates scurring around
attemptirig to get the necessary number of signatures on their
petitions.
Candidates chapel was last Tuesday, at which time you heard the
stands of president/vice-president tickets and were allowed time to
question the candidates. I would like to encourage you to become
aware of all the candidates, the issues, and then vote intelligently.
In February, Senate was in charge of chapel one day and the
question was asked, "What do you do with the $39,000 in your
budget? To answer that question, it must first be realized that the
budget is divided into eight sections. The section title and total annual
allotment are set forth below:
Student Salaries $ 4800
Supplies and Expense, Office 500
Travel — organized activities 750
Program expense — Clarion and Coeval 16500
Program expense — Senate activities 2000
Program expense — Contingency 13500
Equipment — Minor 250
Equipment — Major 750
TOTAL $39050
Student salaries are comprised of the stipends for President ($1200),
Vice President ($1000), Secretary ($650), and Treasurer ($650). Office
Supplies and Expense goes toward all operating expenses of our office
postage, copying charges, phone stationary and envelopes, etc.
Travel is pretty self-explanatory: it covers trips to Regents meetings
or such trips as the recent American Association of Evangelical
Students in Chicago.
Clarion and Coeval expenses include all publication and office costs
as well as the stipends for the personnel of both publications.
Program expense for the Senate, as well as the contingency budget,
pays for all programs Senate supports or projects it undertakes. Of the
two budgets, the largest lump sum is the escrow money. An
exhaustive list of expenditures from these accounts would be too
space consuming. If you would like to see the breakdown, or just look
at our book of expenditures, feel free to contact us (PO 93).
The entire amount of the minor capital budget went toward the
purchase of an electric typewriter for the Senate office. Prior to that we
had been borrowing the typewriter of Suzy Edwall, our secretary.
Finally, only $300 of the major equipment budget has been used
thus far this year. That amount was used to :lelp pay for the chapel
organ speaker and was committed by last year's Senate.
The next administration will use the remainder of this year's budget
in their first two months in office (April-May). In June the new budget
will go into effect with the beginning of the new fiscal year.
While I'm sure this has not been the most entertaining article you
have ever read in the Clarion, I hope it has been informative. It is good
for both Senate and yourselves to remember this is your money!
Outgoing vice-president and president, Dave Johnson and Pete
Taylor
by Dale E. Johnson
Bethel rig drivers are the least
appreciated martyrs in the world.
Obviously, there are going to be
some who will argue this point,
and still many more who are
going to feel sorry for rig drivers
because of what is said.
Let me say before I go any
further that I don't want any
sympathy and I won't listen to
any arguments. The purpose of
this article is to relate the facts as
I see them, and to try to enlighten
you as a community to the
problems we as Bethel rig drivers
face.
I feel it is only fair to mention a
few of the non-student related
problems the rig driver faces.
After observing Minnesota drivers
for three years, I can safely say
that they have to be the worst
drivers in the world.
This fact alone would tend to
discourage most people from
driving a rig. Yet the Bethel rig
drivers face Minnesota's road-hogging,
ramp-stomping, rig-ignoring
tactics every day with
hearty attitudes.
Another problem Bethel rig
drivers face is that of break-downs.
Although most drivers
have a knowledge of the use of
metrics (the tool of the future), a
majority of our breakdowns are
those that can only be handled by
mechanics who live with rigs.
This is an inconvenience to the
' driver because he must drive a rig
that he is not totally familiar with.
The student-related problems
are infinitely numerous for the
Bethel rig driver. One of the major
controversies on campus is cen-tered
around the problem of
Rosedale.
To blow Rosedale off the map,
as some have suggested, would
be an easy, yet unrealistic
solution to the problem. So, we
have tried to solve it by schedul-ing
certain times when the rig will
go in. That way, if a person
wanted to go to Rosedale, he say, "I was here first and you
could check his schedule and
can't take away my parking
plan to go at one of the times place."
listed. As you can see, life on the
We could also appease the
Bethel rig isn't as easy for the
other riders by not putting them
drivers as some would think.
through the painful ordeal of
Basically, I'm an optimistic fel-going
through the Rosedale
low.
parking lot. I'd like to say that things are
Our plan has all but backfired
going great with the Bethel rig.
and we have seriously considered
But, I'm afraid I can't say that. I
blowing Rosedale off the map. feel that there are a lot of ugly
Most students, I have observed, problems concerning the rig and
hate going into Rosedale at any
that no one has had the opportu-time
(unless they are going to get
nity to expose them. I can only
off there). hope that exposing them has not
Hence, the rig driver is show- left a bitter taste in anyone's
ered with moans and groans and mouth.
ejaculations from people like
It was not easy for me to
Paul Healy who say, "We go into express my feelings in an area so
Rosedale every time I ride the close to me, but now that I've
rig."
done it I feel much better about it.
Many students think that they
We as rig drivers have tried to
have the correct time and that the improve things. We've added
rig should leave when their express runs, music, limited
watches say it's time to go. The Rosedale stops, and countless
rig driver faces the problem of luxuries that most of you will
trying to leave on time when one probably never hear about. Now
watch says he is five minutes
it's your turn. Be on that rig a
late, while the other says he is
little early. Check to make sure
five minutes early. you are on a Rosedale run if you
Another problem is the stu- are going in. Don't ride the
dents who have cars. Some of express bus if you want to stop at
these idiots (mostly Minneso- HAR-MAR. Be considerate of the
tans) park where they are not rig drivers.
supposed to. This makes it next
If we work at this together, we
to impossible for the driver to can solve the many problems
maneuver around the Northland facing the Bethel rig and the rig
Nincompupes. When honked at drivers. We can only keep it
in a friendly gesture asking them running with your help. After all,
to move, they give a look as if to
the Bethel rig is people.
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Weaver tries to coerce yet another student into Business
department
Business dept. ranks
second in size at Bethel
by Bruce Olsen
someone who has the academic
and practical background to
Business is the fastest growing teach."
department at Bethel College. Weaver pointed out that ac-
Presently ranked number two in counting and marketing-finance
terms of majors (only the Biblical are two areas in the department
Studies department is larger), that need bolstering. Presently
business has approximately 200 the department has two part time
students with concentrations. teachers for accounting and one
With this tremendous growth in the finance area.
has come a number of problems. "My individual area is along the
Since the program began in lines of management, industrial
February, 1975, Bethel has hired relations, and personnel," said
only one full-time instructor. He Weaver. "Marketing and finance
is Robert Weaver, the chairman of are not my bag. I would like to
the business department. see a full-time professor in that
The growth of the department area also."
has been paralleled by the large
But many obstacles lie in the
increase in enrollment. When
path of obtaining good faculty for
asked if the business department the department. One of them is
is one of the reasons for Bethel's
that well qualified individuals are
increased enrollment, Weaver also well qualified in the busi-said,
"Well, I don't know if it's
ness world. An individual who
business itself. I think it's
can work in the business world
contributed to the overall growth. will generally go into that area
I'm sure some have come here in because the salaries are so much
the last year or two that wouldn't better.
have had we not had a business
But Weaver expressed satis-department."
faction with the present depart-
To cope with this growth, ment. "I think we offer a pretty
Weaver hopes that the adminis- nice range of courses. Most of
tration will be hiring some new, them are on par with the I
full-time faculty for the depart-think
we also have more flexibil-ment.
"I would like to see two full
ity since the classes are not so
time people besides myself,"
big."
said Weaver. "What we need is
The department is also plan-ning
for other improvements
besides faculty additions. Weaver
is planning to add to the number
of business related periodicals in
the LRC. "By fall, if not before,
we'll add around eight or so new
business-oriented periodicals,"
said Weaver.
This improvement would aid
students in writing research
papers for business. Presently
the LRC contains one periodical
that Weaver believes students
can use for pure business papers.
Other psychology periodicals aid
students in the motivational
areas, but only the Harvard
Business Review is used for
business purposes.
Another area of improvement is
in the area of grants from major
corporations. "We've made an
application for a grant that would
aid us in studying business
ethics," said Weaver. He believed
that with such a grant, the
department could hold a confer-ence
on business ethics in the
fall and a workshop in the spring.
The students that have gradu-ated
from Bethel with a business
degree have been very successful
so far. "As far as I know, the
students that graduated either
have a job or are in graduate
school," said Weaver.
The chairman of the depart-ment
also expressed concern
about future graduates from the
business department. "Down the
road it's the students that go out
of here that are going to make or
break the business department,"
said Weaver. "I would hope that
most of the students are interest-ed
in attacking human problems,
not just going into business for
the sake of business."
The growing pains that the
business department has experi-enced
in the past two years are
sure to continue for some time.
With good, qualified faculty hard
to come by and an increasing
number of students becoming
business majors, the department
is having a difficult time adjust-ing.
But with the progress the
department has made in its first
two years, the next two should
see an equal amount of improve-ment,
with new faculty and new
programs to add to the increasing
number of business majors.
Chapel Schedule
Monday
Music Chapel
Tuesday
Wayne Grudem
Wednesday
Pastor Spickelmier
Thursday
Women's Choir
Friday
Communion
In Hardwood Groves '
by Mark Troxel
I have a rather acerbic view of Sunday School, a view I cannot justify
but at the same time it is an attitude I cannot rid myself of. It all started
in my childhood, for Sunday School is one of my most painful
memories. Not even in the loneliest nook or cranny of my mind can I
find an experience as uncomfortable as the Sunday School situation.
First there are the physical properties of the room itself. Let's face
it. A Sunday School room could not be made to look any colder.
Cement block walls covered with a coat of faded green paint and a
blackboard that is consistently out of chalk hanging at rakish angle are
not exactly alluring — although some of the more affluent churches
supply their classrooms with maps of Paul's three missionary
journeys. This bleak and dismal atmosphere is augmented by several
rows of steel folding chairs that feel like they have just been pulled out
of a snow bank and are contoured so as to make even a flag-pole sitter
uncomfortable.
But there is also the leisure-suited, white-shoed teacher who is
simply not a good teacher. He asks questions that are so simple, no
one wants to be caught answering for fear of looking like one is proud
of one's self for knowing the answer.
Admittedly, this is incredibly cynical (who,. me?). But there are
reasons for my affinity for Sunday School. First and foremost is
simply that I am a bona-fide, card-carrying cynic. But another factor
has to be that I find it extremely difficult to function while I am in my
Sunday-go-to-meet'ns. I have always had an aversion to ties,
cuff-links, etc. and they put me in no mood to discuss. But the most
plausible explanation is that as "the preacher's kid" I was forced to go
to Sunday School all my life. It is no wonder that I hated to go. But not
only was I forced to go but the teacher always expected me to sit
attentively and to know all the answers. I did my best not to sit
attentively but I must have known at least some of the answers since
they always had me bat clean-up when we played Bible-baseball.
If I sound like I'm playing the martyr you're right. I am rather bitter
about being the "PK." 'n fact when I was younger I simply hated it. I
dreaded the first day of second-grade when Mrs. Miller went around
the room asking us all what our fathers did for a living. Everyone else
was normal. They were all sons and daughters of TV repairmen,
truck-drivers, loading-dock foremen, etc. David Connor's father was
even a fireman! I was afraid to let people know what my father did.
After all, who would want to come over to my house to play where they
thought ministers didn't like children or laughter contaminating the
cloistered confines of their living room.
But even worse was to let the teacher know. The Baptist minister in
a small rural town is big stuff and his children were expected to be four
years ahead of their class in maturity and intellect. It is a sad
statement on some of my elementary school teachers but every time
my passion for little-league or spit-wad throwing surpassed my ability
to spell, they thought it wise to remind me that my father was one of
the "best educated men in town" and that I should be doing better.
But the pressure of these expectations was present in father's
church too. From age four I was expected to be an adolescent mock-up
of the apostle Paul. If they would have known that it was in fact the
Drake brothers and I who kept throwing those paper airplanes out of
the balcony maybe they wouldn't have tried to make me an example for
their kids.
Maybe the worst result of these expectations was that it stunted my
spiritual growth. I was always expected to be able to give my
testimony on cue and after awhile it didn't make any difference to me
whether or not it was real as long as the ladies aid could be seen
nodding their heads. After being in a atmosphere where I was assumed
to be a young Martin Luther I couldn't help but start believing it. It
wasn't until I got to college and away from the preacher's kid situation
that I saw myself for the spiritual non-entity I truly was.
But being a PK wasn't all bad. We could go swimming in the
baptistery on Sunday afternoon (somebody had to test that water), and
after church on communion Sunday we got to drink all the leftover
grape juice. Still, somehow this didn't outweight the pressures
involved with being a preacher's kid.
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Johnson (left) and Carlson hope to increase social budget
More social activities,
student input proposed
Osgood (right) and Glenn propose new programs
Need for stronger Senate cited
by Tad Johnson
and Mark Carlson
We feel the most important
issue to address is the divided
and almost non-existent social
life on campus. Because next
year only one third of the
students will live on new campus,
some sort of action needs to be
taken to encourage more of a
"community" social life.
Our first proposal would be to
introduce a small activity fee, say
$5 per semester, to give the
campus coordinators a large
working budget.
With this increased budget,
social activities could expand at
Bethel to include bigger name
musical groups, drama groups, a
regular movie schedule, and
other activities which were previ-ously
ruled out because of cost.
Furthermore, these activities
would be free or else at a highly
reduced cost, and would elimi-nate
the problems associated
with the SAC cards. Hopefully,
this would be an incentive to
bring off-campus students to
more social activities as well as
those students to whom an
admission is a deterrent.
We would also hope to encour-age
more participative activities
rather than the large number of
spectator events. Finally, we
would examine the present open
dorm policies and attempt to
evaluate student opinion in this
area.
2) We feel the student body
does and should have a vested
interest in the Student Associa-tion.
Granted, the majority of
students leave most of the policy
action and initiation to student
leaders, but nevertheless, they
maintain an active interest in
Student Association responsibili-ties
such as the Clarion, Coeval,
the Campus Coordinator's office,
the Roster and Passages supple-ment,
the Public Action Commit-tee,
as well as the various minor
services performed.
We believe most Bethel stu-dents
support the idea of having
student leaders to communicate
their opinions to the faculty and
administration. We would hope
to develop stronger channels of
communication and feedback,
and furthermore, make students
more aware of the impact their
personal suggestions may offer.
3) As it stands now, we feel
the Student Senate and the
Student Association are not
using their voice to the extent
which is possible. In other words,
the Senate and student officers
should more actively use their
positions to offer suggestions
and common student opinions to
the administration.
Besides enacting policies on
such matters as stopwatches for
the girl's track team and giving
the cheerleaders an expense
account, the Senate should write
and publish in , the Clarion
resolutions stating specific stu-dent
positions on issues before
the regents and the administra-tion.
We applaud the idea of open
forums with the dean and hope to
expand the concept into ques-tions
and answers available for
regular Clarion publication.
Unmistakably, Bethel exists
because of students and for the
benefit of the students. A wide
open door to the administration
is certainly not too much to ask.
4) Although we are disappoint-ed
to see the seemingly unstop-pable
enrollment increases, we
are thankful for the assurance
from the administration that
crowded housing will not be a
significant problem next year.
The recently purchased Foun-tain
Terrace Apartments at Coun-ty
E2 and 35W will be used for
college housing and will alleviate
the crowded old campus and
townhouse conditions of this
year.
Certainly we hope to keep tabs
on how this situation is handled,
including an input into setting a
fair and proper fee for students
housed there.
We are confident that the
administration is doing every-thing
possible to obtain the
necessary permit for the new
dorms (or should we say the new,
new dorms).
5) Tad: I believe that my desire
to improve student life at Bethel
would help me to be a concerned
and active leader. To assist
Senate in accomplishing this
task, I can contribute an open-ness
and appreciation for each
student's ideas, while at the
same time providing organization
and goals for the Senate.
My past involvement in Senate
would help me to be a competent
president. As chairman of the
mandatory student-faculty com-mittee
membership. This will
leave more committee positions
open to non-Senate students. For
example, any student can have
input on the Curriculum Commit-tee,
which determines policy
concerning changes in curricu-lum.
Therefore, we would like to
see an efficient Senate working
towards meaningful goals, and
increased student input on com-mittees.
2) There has been a noticeable
lack of interest by the student
body in what the Senate does.
Part of the reason for this is
because of the lack of meaningful
goals.
One possible goal for the
upcoming year might be the
development of a used book
co-operative. Its purpose would
be to sell used books at a lower
profit than in our current book-store.
It could be operated entirely by
students, on an order-pickup
basis at the beginning and end of
each semester and interim.
Another part of student apathy
towards the Senate seems to be a
result of not knowing what
Senate is involved with. This can
be remedied through: 1) periodi-cal,
informal meetings with class
senators and their constituents,
2) a continuation and improve-ment
of the Public Relations
Committee which was formed
this semester.
3) The administration of Bethel
manifests itself in three ways:
1) the academic, 2) the social,
and 3) the spiritual. Students
presently have input on academic
policies on the student-faculty
committees. Two areas in which
students could have further input
regarding academic policies are:
1) the press for more full-time
faculty as opposed to many
current part-time faculty, and
2) the re-evaluation of the pass-fail
system.
Concerning the social life, we
would encourage more student
opinion regarding activities, and
try to work more closely with the
Campus Coordinators, who are
directly accountable to Senate.
We would also like to work
towards more student input and
participation in the men's and
women's intramurals program.
Although Senate's responsibil-ities
don't directly deal with the
spiritual atmosphere, we would
like to continue to support
Christian Service through mone-tary
appropriations.
4) The overcrowding problem
is, in our opinion, a result of poor
long-range planning by the ad-ministration.
Because Bethel was
refused a building permit for the
new dorm, the overload of
students will be absorbed in the
Fountain Terrace Apartment
housing. Although this is an
unfortunate situation, Senate's
power in this area is limited.
However, we see a few areas in
which students might be better
serviced in spite of the over-crowding.
We would like to work to-wards:
1) increased parking fa-cilities,
2) ensuring adequate
busing service for those students
housed in Fountain Terrace, and
3) the availability of more study
areas on weekends.
Next year's student enrollment
has been increased by 75. In
order to alleviate any further
overcrowding, the following
years' enrollment should not be
allowed to further increase.
(Some people have offered the
solution of barring all Nebraskan
students from Bethel,- but we
don't necessarily agree.)
5) David Osgood: First, as a
junior at Bethel I feel that I know
the school well. I am involved in
the varsity sports program (soc-cer
and golf), have had experi-ence
in dramatics, and have been
on the Dean's list in two of my
three years here.
Secondly, while not being
directly involved in Senate this
past year, I've attended several
second semester meetings and
have kept current as to the
workings of Senate. I've also had
student representative experience
in high school.
Thirdly, the job of president
consists primarily of public rela-tions
work whereas the vice-president
works more directly
with Senate. As a business major
and a political science major,
public relations is one of my
special interest areas and I plan
on pursuing a career in that field.
Kim Glenn: I am currently in
my third year on Senate. I have
been a member of the Public
Action Committee and of the
Judiciary Committee. I ran for
vice-president last year, winning
in the primaries, but losing in the
final election to Pete and Dave. I
have also been an R.A. this year,
and believe that this job has
increased my awareness of stu-dent
needs.
But finally, I believe that my
most valid qualification would be
that I am directly familiar with the
current workings of Senate, un-der
its new structure, and with
the needs and issues which will
be carried over into next year's
Senate.
Perhaps the main reason why
we feel that we could do a good
job is because we are both willing
to commit ourselves to whatever
is necessary to achieve the goals
of the student body:
by Dave Osgood and Kim Glenn
1) As we see it, the most
important issue the Student
Administration must address it-self
to is the restoration of power
and efficiency within the Senate
and the student body. This year's
Senate worked under a new,
smaller structure with many
changes in committees. Because
of this, efficiency was hampered
the first part of the year.
Only recently has Senate be-gun
to function smoothly. We
feel that efficiency is vital in
determining the amount of power
Senate can have.
Power has also been stagnant
in the student-faculty commit-tees.
We would like to see those
committees used to their fullest
potential. Last week our student
body voted to relieve senators of
special proje .cts committee, I
took an active leadership role and
came to an understanding of the
internal workings of the Senate.
Membership on a student-faculty
committee has increased my
perception of the working rela-tionship
between students and
faculty.
Mark: It's a difficult thing to
describe personal qualities other
than to say I have a desire to be of
service to Bethel students in a
position which can have an
impact. I guess I'd consider
myself a fairly serious-minded
person — a planner and contien-tious
about getting things ac-complished
on time.
As far as experience goes, I'm a
junior and have spent 2 1/2 of
those years at Bethel, being
active in Senate, the Public
Action Committee, and the Edu-cational
Policies and Academic
Affairs student-faculty commit-tees.
My experience at another pri-vate
college for a semester also
gives me added insight and a
unique outlook on strengths and
weaknesses I see at Bethel.
Together we feel that our areas
of concentration being from
totally different departments, and
our having diverse extra-curricu-lar
activities gives us a broad
outlook on the needs and opin-ions
of students.
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Arts Calendar
Visual Arts
March 25-26
Darrell Nelson, drawings, Bethel College Gallery
March 25-April 9 20th Century Master Prints, selection of
lithographs, etchings and screenprints;
Galleries 4, 5, 6, 7, Walker Art Center
March 25-30
Aspects of Realism, Art Building Gallery,
College of St. Catherine
Theatre
April 8-10
Godspell, National Touring Company at the
State Theatre (332-6575)
March 25-April 1 The Servant of Two Masters, 8 p.m., Park
Square Theatre, 400 Sibley St., St. Paul
March 25- April 17 Mrs. Warren's Profession,
Theatre-In-The-Round
March 25-April 1 The Crucible, Lakeshore Playhouse, 8 p.m., 522
Stewart Ave., White Bear Lake
Music
April 15
Gordon Lightfoot at Northrup Auditorium, 7:30
and 10:30 p.m., (373-2345)
April 16
"Doc" Severinsen at the Minneapolis
Auditorium, 8 p.m. (335-2125)
March 27
Janis Ian at the State Theatre, 8 p.m. (tickets at
Daytons)
March 27
Male Chorus at Seminary Chapel 8 p.m.
March 25
Candide, Minnesota Opera Company at the
Guthrie (221-0256)
April 17
Male Chorus at Edina Baptise 7 p.m.
April 24
Male Chorus at Central Free, Minneapolis 7 p.m.
May 1
Women's Choir at Redeemer Baptist, St. Paul 7
p.m .
May 8
Women's Choir at Calvary Baptist 7 p.m.
Dance
Hartford Ballet, Northrup Auditorium, 8 p.m.
(373-2345)
Don Redlich Dance Company, Northrup
Auditorium, 8 p.m. (373-2345)
'Moods'
scheduled
for April 15
by Becky Johnson
The "Moods of Music" will be
the thematic focus of an upcom-ing
Bethel tradition. In the
gymnasium on Friday, April 15
at 8 p.m., Moods will be
presented to Bethel, by Bethel.
Moods is a variety show,
though not a talent show, as was
February's Show Biz. It has the
added characteristic of a main
theme that deals with emotions
and hopefully sends the audience
home pondering the ideas.
Campus Coordinators Dan An-derson
and Karen Mann began
planning for this year's Moods in
February. Bethel's orchestra and
a live stage band will both
perform. A committee of 10 to 12
people will be organized in the
near future to come up with more
ideas after which they will
proceed to line up appropriate
musical numbers, skits, read
ings, etc.
Dan said, "We're still formulat-ing
ideas for the show and if
people are interested in partici-pating
they should feel free to
contact us."
Individual acts in the show are
practiced separately except for
one or two walk through rehear-sals.
Because of the number of
acts involved, props and scene
changes must be kept simple.
Dan expressed the desire that
appropriate dress for Moods
should be somewhat formal; no
jeans. He feels that this sugges-tion
for Snow Biz encouraged
dating. The admission charge is
uncertain at this time.
Band to perform
concert tonight
A melodic representation of the
troubadour's song, children
squabbling after play, cart creeks
and oxen hoofs, sounds of chicks
emerging from their shells, quar-reling
women at the marketplace,
a solumn processional through
the Great Gate of Kiev — each is
a musical paraphrase of "Pictures
at an Exhibition" by Modeste
Moussorgsky to be performed by
the Bethel Concert Band, Friday,
March 25, 8 p.m. in the college
gymnasium.
Directed by Professor Julius
Whitinger, the 65-piece ensemble
also will play concert music by
prominent American composers,
including Aaron Copeland's "Out-door
Overture," Paul Creston's
"Legend," and Percy Grainger's
"Lincolnshire Posy."
Assistant director Ken Vork
will lead the band in "The Tsar's
Farewell" by Rimsky-Korsakov
after which former Navy band-master
Dr. Whitinger will return
to the podium to direct a
contemporary setting of the
majestic naval hymn, "Eternal
Father, Strong to Save." Other
hymn arrangements for brass
choir and for the full ensemble
will be heard during the program.
The Band invites all to come —
a free will offering will be
received.
review
Rainbow's Colorful Caravan
boasts new faces / new skits
by Holly Schmiess
It was a rainy day last Friday, but as promised, Rainbow's Colorful
Caravan burst into opening night in the Bethel theatre. In its fourth
year of formation, it's clearer, cleaner, brighter than ever before. A
number of last season's hazy elements have crystalized into a far
superior display.
As distinct as the colors in a rainbow, yet as natural a blend are the
performers themselves. Three returning features are Jeff Miller's
lyric-tenor innocence, Duane Glader's strapping physique, and Mary
Frances Fiess's elastic face.
The rest are new: Juan Ramos lends a wistful quality with his deep
soft croon and quiet agility. Carol Anderson's versatile strong voice
can create any mood from seductive to silly to sincere. Sue Green's
trademark classic features and wispy figure contribute restraint and
grace.
Certainly not least is Martha Leander whose smooth comfort at the
piano and guitar almost do her out of any attention at all ; exceptional
talent that is to the show what a string is to beads.
More solo acts than last year lets the audience feel that by the time
the show is over, they know each performer personally. The girls'
complimentary blend is a pleasant surprise after hearing them
separately first. The guys didn't venture into a quartet, though with
Doc Rainbow the ranges would do well together barbershop style.
Mirth and melody are still paramount, but the program is built easily
around a three-part message, "Love God, love your brother, love
yourself." The usual obtrusive curtain between silly and sacred was
rent. Nonsense in flamboyant slapstick, and sense in serene folk
harmony cooperated to offer each idea frankly. The show's continuity
bloomed into a unity that spoke for itself.
If the message's universality can be tested by the variety of
resources it draws upon for expression, Caravan passes. It has
gleaned excerpts from Broadway shows, and contemporary gospel
rock musicals; part of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," a musical
setting of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, and tuneful
versions of the Flood and Good Samaritan stories (in this case
Comanchi Sam).
Doc himself, with polished reasoning, is a transition again this year
between program sections. But he gets into the acts, too, as a horse in
Comanchi Sam, and Noah in "You've Got to Have a Rudder on the
Ark," which won the prize with the audience.
All the acts are musical, which demands articulation and volume,
sometimes immediately after energetic stunts. Projection was
admirable, though larger halls and audiences will require that much
more.
The uncluttered stage is a great improvement. Instead of a forest of
microphones, there's just one that is slipped around gracefully.
A stack of painted building blocks is quickly reassembled like a
puzzle, into several sets including a medicine wagon, an ark, and the
word B-R-O-T-H-E-R. And when they aren't being looked at, they're
being sat upon! In proportion, though, to the size of the troupe (both
in numbers and inches), and the pinwheel action, the boxes could be
twice as big at least.
There were some anachronisms, but in a show like Caravan where
Duane Glader becomes a fuzzy pink poodle, who can say which ones
are deliberate? The rich velvet curtain backdrop seemed to outclass the
rough-hewn medicine wagon genre. Wouldn't it be nice if the stage
looked more like a peddler's platform? And the absurdity of Carol and
Mary Fran wailing blue-style in their Sun Bonnet Baby dress (yes, one;
they were Siamese twins!
The fantasia of costumes — especially the three street clothes
changes — was impressive, perhaps even unsettling considering the
show may thus limit its appeal to those who aren't hung-up materially
on either end of the financial spectrum.
Clouds or no, Rainbow's Caravan is good medicine for the rainy-day
blues. It's a full evening of entertainment, giving you a breathless
amount of color and action for one ticket. So much in fact it's enough
to make you feel guilty ... if it weren't so much fun for people on both
sides of the lights.
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The Aeolian Tuba
by Lorraine Eitel
Sitting there in their work clothes, smelling of stale lake water and
even staler fish, they had other things to do when he walked up. Busy
living and earning a living, they understood action. So he spoke of
action, his action, action that would change their activity.
He did not say, "Because you have shown great success in the
endeavor to which I call you . . ."
He did not say, "Your vocational aptitudes and interest surveys
show you would be successful in . . ."
He did not even say, "I can always use a couple a hard workers like
you guys."
But he said, according to his biographer Mark, "Follow me, and I
will make you to become . . ."
And they became becoming persons. Changing mindsets and
lifestyles, they were not the same people at the end that they had been
in the beginning. He made them to become fishers of men.
Sitting here in my work clothes, smelling of Flair pen, newsprint and
chalk dust, I have things to do, but I have learned to listen to a familiar
voice, a voice that still needs to call.
He does not say, "Because of your great intellectual prowess,
exceptional spiritual discernment and steadfast moral power . . ."
He does not even say (thought it may be true), "Spiritually, you've
come a long way, baby."
He says, "Continue to follow me, and I will continue to make you to
become . . ."
But becoming means growth, and growth means change, and
changes costs a lot. It costs admitting that I'm still not perfect the way
I am — that things in me need to be different. Change means seeing
things in a new way. And that new sight will make demands on me, on
my time and on my savings account. Change, exhilarating as it is, can
be very painful.
Yet he calls again as he called before and will call again and again,
"Follow me. I will make you to become the kind of person I need. I
have things for you to do."
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"The Messiah" 'Young and Restless'
to be performed upset no I 'Probes'
Selections from Handel's "The
Messiah" will be presented in a
chapel concert Monday. Linda
Herrmann will direct the choir
accompanied by a string ensem-ble
and harpsichord in the
Baroque style. Soloists will be
Jennifer Woods, soprano, Dan
Petersen, baritone, and Paul
Kling, tenor.
ISA dinner
tomorrow night
Be a foreigner. Improve your
cultural sensitivity. Learn about
other countries by tasting their
food, talking to their people,
seeing their uniqueness. Come to
International Night, presented by
Bethel's own ISA. The time is
Saturday night, March 26, 6:00-
9: 30 p.m. in the field house. The
cost is $2.50 for reserved tickets,
$3.00 at the door.
English dept.
to host coffee
Next Tuesday at 3 p.m.,
the English department is host-ing
a coffee in the Royal Oak
Room for anyone interested in
the English field. Speakers will
focus their remarks on post-graduation
options for those
interested in English-related ca-reers.
SMP, con't. from p. 1
and personal donations. The
present financial status of the
organization is $6,350 out of the
$9,500 goal.
According to Kathy, chapel
support was great at the begin-ning
of the year, but declined
substantially during the course of
the year. However, it is currently
picking up.
Students currently involved in
this year's SMP project are:
Nancy Ahlberg, Dave Anderson,
Judy Brundage, Marty Dennison,
Tim Doten, Greg Hanson, Linda
Heeren, Cindy Johnson, Dan K.
Johnson, Greg Jones, Gretchen
Kaiser, Rick Knopf, Sara Larson,
Dave Linde, Doug Magnuson,
Bob Merritt, Neil Meyer, Doug
Mounce, Terry Rosell, Holly
Schmiess, and Sue Wahl.
Not all of them have been
accepted by the mission boards;
all must yet procure visas,
passports, and shots; many have
yet to finish raising their support.
Yet they are excited at the
prospect whether the country
involved be Canada, Japan, Mexi-co,
Alaska, Ecuador, Philippians,
Thailand, Colombia, Brazil, Puer-to
Rico, or the United States.
Their reasons for and attitudes
about going appear to be similar
to that of Greg Hanson, who will
be going to British Columbia
under the American Indian Mis-sion.
"I'm not positive I want to
go into missions yet, but I believe
that God would have me explore
it — so I would like to get a 'taste'
of a cross-cultural mission exper-ience."'
by Dan Erickson
When this issue of the Clarion
went to press the first round of
playoffs had been completed.
There were some hard-fought,
close games played and a couple
of startling upsets.
The most amazing game played
had to be the victory of the Young
and Restless over Probes, Gigs
and Dozers. The two teams had
played the week before and the
Young and Restless had gone
down to defeat by 37 points. This
time it was a different story. Jim
Schultz dropped in everything he
fired up and ended with 23.
Hallstrom had 15 and "Smerg"
punched in 12. Final score:
56-48.
The Big Apple edged Wink's
Finks 50-49 in a fairly close
game. Tom West fired 17 points
over the Finks, while Hepburn
added 13. Mack Nettleton had 13
for the losers.
The Pink Panthers, the stuff
League's fourth place team
crushed the first place Charlie's
Angels' hopes with a 52-48
thrashing. Mark Norlander and
John Merritt tallied 16 and 13
points respectively.
That awesome Upper Volta
bunch rolled over another oppo-nent,
this time True Grunt, 59-43.
by Linda Dowden
The Bethel girls track team had
an outstanding meet last week-end
at the St. Olaf Open, with
everyone on the team setting
their own personal record in at
least one of their events.
The meet was an invitational
with eight other schools held last
Friday at St. Olaf College. The
participating schools were Man-kato,
River Falls, Eau Claire, St.
Roger Gustafson picked up 15
while Greg Wilcox slammed
home 14, the Phantom popped in
11 and Erickson didn't score. Al
Jones got 20 points for True
Grunt. On Wednesday night, the
Northwest Upper Volta All-Stars
(Again) played the Young and
Restless and the Pink Panthers
played the Big Apple. On Thurs-day,
the Stuff Division winner
played the Swish Division winner
and the 1977 open league "A"
champion was crowned.
In one "B" league game the
score was Johnnies 39, and the
whole National Butcher's Associ-ation
team 43. Carrigan scored all
but four of the NBA points. These
decisive points were added by
Frank Bahr, Dave Laurion and
Herman.
Thee Union beat Ad Nauseum
47-45 in a dramatic contest. Whitt
gunned in 17 and Ronn Kreps
helped out with 12. Ad Nauseum
was kept in the game until the
final seconds through the heroic
efforts of David Jorgenson who
finished with 21.
All the IM ballplayers in both
"A" and "B" leagues owe a great
deal to the hard work, patience
and commitment of Bill Whitta-ker,
Wally Brown and Tim Hau-gen.
Their supervision and orga-nization
added a lot to a great
season of basketball and fun.
Olaf, Gustavus, Hemline, Augs-burg,
Macalester and Bethel.
As a team they finished in fifth
place overall, with Eau Claire
beating us by only one point to
take fourth place.
Six new Bethel records were
set in the various events. Carol
Anderson took first place in the
high jump, tying the previous
record of 5 ft. and making it her
personal best. Sheryl Meyer
placed fourth in the same event.
This is the initial interview with
the defending Study Day Clarion
Golf Epic Champions, Paul Healy
and Bill Trollinger.
Clarion: Tell us about last year's
victory.
Champs: The history books
record that we brought Como
Golf Course to its knees with a
pair of blistering 90s. But let's
talk metagolf. On Trollinger's
final shot of the day, an incred-ible
185-yard pitching wedge on
hole no. 18, a voice, indeed Plato
himself, could be heard saying,
"Yes. That's the `form'."
Clarion: What about complaints
that have been voiced concerned
alleged handicap-fixing?
Champs: Talk to the handicap
committee.
Clarion: You are the handicap
committee.
Champs: No comment.
Clarion: What about this year's
tourney? Any changes?
Champs: Yes. First, we have
added a faculty member to the
Freshman Jan Engel set a
new record in the shot put of
37'5", which gave her a second
place in the meet and qualified
her for the regional upcoming
Meet.
Denise Egge broke two previ-ous
school records, one in the
600 yard run and one in the mile
run. In the mile run she smashed
the record by 21 seconds and
pla.ced third. She also took fourth
place in the 600 yard run with a
handicap committee: Willard
Harley, who unfortunately will be
out of town that week. And we
won't accept his T.A.
The second change is some-thing
we cannot control. Appa-rently,
the greens committee at
Como is contemplating some
major changes on the course in
an attempt to make it more
challenging for us. Frankly, they
were embarrassed at how we
destroyed the course last year.
A minor change this year is
that Chuck Haaland won't be in
the tourney. If you remember
correctly, Haaland shot a pair of
Bicentennial 76s en route to a
masterful 152.
Clarion: Summarize your strong
and weak points.
Champs: Only half of that
question deserves response.
With the Healy incredibly-strong
long game and the Trollinger
ability to one-putt from anywhere
on any green, we are the most
awesome team since . . .
record 1 :35.
Both of the relay teams also set
new records. The "sprint" relay
team with Cheryl Staurseth,
Sheryl Meyer, Cathy Duehn and
Bobbie Hersch placed sixth,
taking three seconds off the old
record.
The mile relay team took two
seconds off the previous record
placing fifth, with Gail Anderson,
Debi Grosklags, Shari Reasoner
and Denise Egge.
seven
Women's track team breaks 6 Bethel records
Senior Bill DeVoe will once again pace the netmen.
Bethel netmen expected
to win conference
A strong forehand shown by sophomore Mark Norlander
by Bruce Olsen
The perennial Tri-state Confer-ence
tennis champions began
practice this month led by first
singles champion Bill DeVoe.
DeVoe, a senior, will be playing
in his fourth straight year in the
first singles position.
According to Coach Paul Rea-soner,
the conference champs
will once again capture the team
title. "We should win," said
Reasoner. "I think we are tougher
than we were last year. We have a
lot more depth than we did last
year."
Depth is the strength of this
year's team, as Reasoner pointed
out that there are good strokers
all the way down to the twelfth
man.
Following DeVoe in the second
singles position will be freshman
Steve Brown from Marion, Iowa.
He will be followed by Greg
Kuntz, returning from last year's
squad to play third singles.
The fourth through sixth posi-tions
are still questionable, but
Coach Reasoner has made early
season placements. In the fourth
position is sophomore Mark
Norlander, with freshman Peter
Nelson playing fifth and Jim
Grant playing sixth.
Other players that may chal-lenge
for the top six positions
will be junior Greg Addington and
freshmen Dan Runion and Dave
Fredericks.
Reasoner defended the charge
that the Tri-state Conference is
an easy conference to win.
"Some people think it's an easy
conference, but we had a tough
time winning last year," said
Reasoner.
As for the upcoming season,
the coach had this to say: "This
will be our toughest year for dual
meets. We will be playing Gusta-vus
for the first time this year
along with the 'U'. The roughest
thing will be that most of our
eight
by Greg Smith
A group of Bethel women have
responded to the arrival of spring
and enlisted their arduous efforts
in a traditional activity commonly
referred to as women's softball.
Karyl Frye is in her first year as
coach of the Bethel women's
softball team and comes to
Bethel from Battle Creek Junior
High School in St. Paul, where
she previously coached grades
seven through nine in volleyball,
basketball, softball, gymnastics
and speedball.
Academically, Miss Frye re-ceived
her B.A. and M.A. from
Mankato and has done doctoral
work at Florida State in the area
of sports psychology. A native of
Truman, Minn., Coach Frye
brings with her fourteen years of
league softball experience on
both state and regional champi-onship
teams.
This year the Bethel diamond-ettes
are young and coach sees it
as a building year. Of this year's
sixteen member team, only six
are upperclassmen, and five of
those six are sophomores.
Among the freshmen, there are a
few cases of limited or no
previous experience and Coach
Frye has thus placed an empha-sis
upon the basic fundamentals
of softball.
The returning members of this
year's team will provide a good
amount of experiential depth for
Coach Frye to build around.
According to Coach Frye, Cindy
Martin will fulfill the pitching
duties with poise and experience
and will throw to her equally as
experienced battery-mate Ruth
Moser, the Bethel catcher.
Vicki Wright, a new member to
the team, will provide backup
pitching as well as sound fielding
in the outfield. Along with Vicki
in the outfield will be junior Cathy
Olson and in the infield, sopho-more
Cindy Ramm.
Coach Frye has been im-pressed
with the amount of hard
work, enthusiasm, and desire of
the various members of the team.
Three times a week the Bethel
women work out in the batting
cage and Coach Frye hopes that
she can, in the future, develop
the potential for base stealing
and heads-up ball that those
members of the team possess.
The Bethel team begins their
competition on April 21 with
other teams from Gustavus, the
University, Northwestern, Augs-burg,
Carleton, St. Olaf, St.
Mary's, Concordia, St. Benedict's
and Normandale.
Currently Bethel women do not
compete in any form of confer-by
Greg Kuntz
The Bethel men's track team
finished first and set a new
school record in the four-lap relay
at an unofficial Tri-state confer-ence
indoor meet at Mankato last
Saturday. It was the first time
Bethel won a Tri-State conference
meet.
Runners Nate Allen, Kevin
Shenk, Gene Blair, and Mike
Bogard teamed up for a time of
1 :13.9, which shattered one-month-
old record of 1 :15.4 set at
Mankato by Blair, Shenk, Allen,
and Greg Held.
The Royals had a great time
winning almost every running
event, and for the first time in the
school's history, had five mem-bers
place in the pole vault. Phil
LaGesse, who didn't compete the
previous week due to injury,
captured first in the pole vault
with an even 12'. Paul Rasmussen
placed second behind LaGesse.
Doug Hage ended up fourth, with
Dan Dye and David Johnson tying
for fifth.
There were several double
winners: Larry Caldwell won the
mile and two-mile running events
with respective times of 4:29.8
and 9:59.5.
Curt Brown won the 600 and
the 880 yard dash in 1 :15.4 and
2:05.4 respectively.
The other double winner for
Bethel was Nate Allen, who
captured top honors in the 60
yard dash and the 300 yard dash
in respective times of 6.4 and
32.6.
Jim Timp took fourth in the
mile, Mike Bogard finished third
in the 60 yard dash, and Dave
ence but Coach Frye hopes that
within the next few years a league
will be established for women's
sports as well as for men's.
So far in the scheduling, only
three contests are at home and
the remainder are all to be played
on the road. Several of the away
games are doubleheaders which
will provide the Bethel women
with a full season of play and
experience. The dates of the three
home games are May 4, May 9,
May 11, and will all be played at
Perry Park on County Road E2
and New Brighton Road.
For a great break from that
monotous game of procastina-tion
of studies and the marvelous
benefits to be accrued thereof,
plan ahead to attend and support
women's softball in what proves
to be a successful season.
Clapp finished only two-tenths of
a second behind Curt Brown in
the 600.
Dave Thiessen took fifth in the
880. Gene Blair captured first in
the 440 event in 52.7. He also
took fourth in the 300 yard dash.
Graydon Held and Kevin Shenk
captured second and fourth re-spectively
in the 440.
The Royals were winning the
1000 yard run for awhile, but Jim
Timp finally ended up in second,
while Dave Clapp took fourth.
The mile relay team of Graydon
Held, Gene Blair, Clapp, and
Shenk was leading their event
when Blair's leg tightened while
he was running his segment of
the race.
Coach Gene Glader said, "He
ran in the 300 shortly before the
mile relay. It was soon for him to
run again."
Mark Neufeld finished fourth in
the 60 yard high hurdles and Greg
Held took fifth in the 176 yard
intermediate hurdles.
In other field events Steve
Carrigan hurled the shot 44'2" to
take second and John Van Loon
leaped 42'1" to take second . in the
triple jump. Dan Hogan captured
third in the high jump.
"It was a very nice win," saia
Coach Glader. "We've been aim-ing
for this one all year. We were
thankful for healings and the
team is looking pretty good now.
We'll be favored for the outdoor
Tri-state meet and I hope to win
that one too."
The Royals close out their
indoor season tomorrow after-noon
at the Macalester College
fieldhouse against Macalester
and possibly St. Thomas.
Martin to lead Bethel softballers
games are on the road."
When asked if the team is
capable of winning a Minnesota
Intercollegiate Athletic Confer-ence
(MIAC) title, Reasoner said a
flat out, "No, no way." He
pointed to the power of Gusta-vus,
along with good teams like
St. John's and St. Olaf. "We'd be
in the upper third," said Reasoner
on his team's chances in the
MIAC.
The team's first match will be
April 13 against the University of
Wisconsin at River Falls. The
match will be here and begin at 3
p.m.
Trackmen take first in
conference meet
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Clarion
N Bethel College St. Paul, MN March 25, 1977
SMP prepares for summer work
If
Back row : Kathy Asselin (president), Marty Dennison
(Ecuador), Greg Hanson (British Columbia), Tim Doten (Puerto
Rico), Stan Murach (vice-president). Front row : Holly Schmiess
(Ecuador), Sue Wahl (Japan), Linda Heeren (British Columbia),
Gretchen Kaiser (Mexico).
Bethel caught in middle
- in Arden Hills squabble
by Bill Trollinger
Attempts to alleviate the cam-pus
overcrowding problem have
been temporarily stymied as the
Arden Hills City Council, on
March 14th, rejected Bethel's
request for a permit to build the
proposed new dorms.
The reason for this rejection
stems from a conflict between
Northwestern and its Arden Hills
neighbors. Northwestern has pro-posed
the building of an 1850-
seat auditorium on its campus,
an auditorium (with parking lot)
to be in close proximity to
residents on the northwest.
These residents are concerned
about Northwestern's plans, ar-guing
potential damage to their
neighborhood in terms of the
nearby people and noise. Thus,
they are fighting the construction
of the auditorium.
The dispute revolves' around
legal ambiguities. R-1 zoning,
under which Northwestern is
currently zoned, states that
"schools" can expand facilities
as need be by Special Use permit.
Northwestern argues that col-leges
are included in this des-ignation,
and thus their applica-cation
for a building permit is
legitimate. The residents argue
that this does not include cot-leges
and therefore the college
should be denied this permit.
The City Council was bom-barded
with phone calls and
petitions from this uniquely
organized and motivated neigh-borhood
organization, as well as
by Bruce Olsen
The National Council for Ac-creditation
of Teacher Education
(NCATE) will be sending a team
of investigators to Bethel next
week to check on the education
department at Bethel. The team,
consisting of nine members, will
be investigating the quality of the
department.
According to Dr. Tom Johnson,
chairman of the education depart-ment,
the purpose of using this
accrediting organization is that it
makes it easier for Bethel stu-dents
to get teaching jobs
outside the state of Minnesota.
"It's not that it would be
impossible to get a job without
NCATE," said Johnson, "but it
helps."
The focus of the team will be
on teacher preparation, but there
is the underlying notion that the
team will be investigating the
entire school. "It's very much like
the North Central accreditation
for this school," said Johnson.
The nine member team will be
making their visit this Sunday
and will finish on Wednesday.
The function of the team will be
to verify the facts that Bethel has
put in its report to the team. They
will then make a statement
as to how Bethel is complying
with the standards in the report.
"They don't make the decision
about the accrediting them-from
supporters of Northwestern
College. On the decisive metting
night the residents arrived en
masse (150-200 people) to plead
their case. Because of this citizen
pressure and because of the legal
ambiguity, the City Council de-clined
to take any action until the
technicalities were cleared up.
This is where Bethel comes in.
As stated above, the City Council
rejected Bethel's application for a
building permit for the new
dorms. The basic reason for this
is that if the Council had
accepted Bethel's application un-der
R-1 , then Northwestern would
argue this meant their application
for R-1 must be legitimate. But if
the City Council re-zoned Bethel
to make the application for a
building permit legitimate, then
the residents would assert this
proved their complaint was cor-rect.
The City Council felt com-pelled
to turn down Bethel's
request.
The Bethel administrators have
maintained their neutrality in this
issue while expressing under-standing
for the Council's quan-dary.
"I definitely do not want to
demean the Council in this
situation," Dave Lissner (of pub-lic
affairs) commented. "They
have a terrible problem on their
hands."
So the question is still up in
the air, as Northwestern Bible
College and its angry neighbors
attempt to work out a solution.
Arden Hills Mayor Henry Cre-continued
on p. 2
selves," said Johnson. "They
submit their information to an
evaluation board."
In July the team chairman will
meet with the evaluation board.
The final decision on Bethel's
accreditation will not be known
until October when the NCATE
council meets to verify the
decision made by the evaluation
board.
Will Bethel pass the investiga-tion?
"Yes," said Johnson. "We
meet the standards very well."
Johnson noted the excellent
quality of the state department of
education. "They're very interest-ed
in quality control," said
Johnson. "The state legislature
has continually exerted pressure
on the department to keep the
education standards high."
If Bethel did fail to meet the
requirements of the investigating
team, there is always the chance
for appeal, which would take
from six months to a year. Many
of the schools that are denied
accreditation do appeal their case
and are granted accreditation.
Currently one out of four schools
are being denied accreditation by
NCATE.
This long process, which start-ed
back in February, 1975 with
the preparing of the report, will
soon end. The work that Dr.
Johnson has been doing for the
last year and a half will soon see
its finish for another ten years.
by Nancy Naumenko
Any Bethel student who has
attended chapel on at least one
Wednesday during the course of
this year will recall hearing those
oft-repeated letters "SMP". In the
denotative sense they stand for
"Student Missionary Project";
connotatively they indicate travel,
missions, dedication, and
growth.
The "Student Missionary Pro-ject"
was initiated in the early
1960's and has grown in numbers
and scope ever since that time.
Last year saw the largest enroll-ment
— some 29 students
volunteered their summers — and
this year the number of students
involved is 22.
Its purpose? As Kathy Asselin,
SMP president states, "The pur-pose
of SMP is to give students a
taste of the mission field in a
cross-cultural experience." This
is affected by financially and
F,iding interested s`u-dents
to give time in their
summers for short-term mission-ary
involvement.
However, changes have been
occurring over the years, one of
these being the removal of the
restriction to merely summertime
projects. For instance, Tim Doten
spent the Interim of 1977 travel-ing
through Puerto Rico as a
pitcher for Sports Ambassadors
playing baseball and sharing his
faith.
Judy Brundage is another
example of a non-summer exper-ience;
she is currently spending
her spring semester in Brazil
under SMP.
SMP has its own government
council on campus. The members
involved include: President, Ka-thy
Asselin; Vice-President, Stan
Murach; Secretary, Martha Bar-ker;
Treasurer, Curt Gruber; and
orientation organizers Laurie St.
Claire and Brian Bohne.
Collectively they define poli-cies,
evaluate various mission
boards and prospective student
missionaries, and prepare the
latter for service.
SMP's general policy states
that all students returning to
Bethel for classes following their
SMP experience are eligible for
application. MK's and foreign
students are also eligible provid-ing
they do not apply for
missionary service in their home
country.
Because of their concern that
the students receive the best
possible missionary experience,
the council has laid 'down some
stricter policies on requirements
for acceptance of mission boards
and student applicants.
One means of achieving this
was by taking an evaluation of
last summer's SMPers' views on
the situations in which they were
placed. Included were such criter-ia
as: the cross-cultural value of
the experience, whether or not
they were really needed in the
situation, whether the facilities
were at least adequate, the
cooperation of the mission, and
the training of the mission where
necessary.
From these evaluations, deci-sions
were made as to which
mission boards will be worked
with in future years.
In addition, a greater focus has
been placed on preparation this
year when considering appli-cants.
Qualifications required
when considering applications
include that the student: will be
returning to Bethel, is a Chris-tian,
has motives other than for
personal gain, has leadership
qualities, is healthy and mature,
financially cepahle to raisP
two-thirds of his support and
return to Bethel, and have a
proficiency in the language of the
country in situations where such
a knowledge is necessary. For
instance, Greg Jones will be
working with Wycliffe Bible
Translators in Colombia, in which
case a working knowledge of the
language is essential.
SMP has decided to concen-trate
on the third world (rather
than Europe). This includes Cen-tral
and South America, Asia, and
Africa. Students are also per-mitted
to work out their own
personal programs for reviewing
by the council.
The decision to avoid European
countries stem from several
reasons, one of them being the
temptation of many students to
use the experience for vacation
purposes.
Also, the ministry is not as
crucially needed, as there are an
abundance of churches already
established, albeit they are not as
receptive to the Gospel as the
third world countries.
Other students will go to
places in the United States and
Canada. The criteria for this is
that they be involved in a
cross-cultural experience. Two
students will be working at South
Shore Baptist Church in Chicago,
which is an inner city church.
Other students will be working
with Indian peoples in British
Columbia.
These and the other students
are expected to raise, as previ-ously
mentioned, two-thirds of
their expenses for their time on
the mission field. The aim of SMP
is then to provide the remaining
one-third. As Kathy Asselin said,
"Missionaries have to be able to
raise their support; we want this
to be as much like a real situation
as possible."
The money for the remaining
one-third (this year's aim is for
$9,500) is raised in various ways,
the major source of income being
the weekly student offerings,
which average $115 per week.
Other fund-raising sources are
bake sales, the Scribes concert,
continued on p. 7
Accrediting team to
evaluate Education dept.
Today is the last day
of registration for
summer school. —
Dean's Office.
zoning, continued from p. 1
peau, commented: "I think some-thing
will be resolved in a matter
of weeks. We could settle it in
one evening if the parties in-volved
wanted to."
Bethel's expert in this situa-tion,
Dave Lissner, isn't quite so
optimistic. "At this point, litiga-tion
between the Northwestern
and the citizens' group seems
almost inevitable, as an out-of-court
settlement seems to be a
remote possibility. With all of the
possible appeals actions, this
matter could take a couple of
years. But I am hoping it will just
take a few months."
At the moment the Bethel
administration is playing the
waiting game. One fact seems to
be certain and that is that the new
dorms will not be finalized by
September. Now the purchase of
the Fountain Terrace Apartments
has proven to a boon as freshmen
and sophomore students will be
using some of these apartments.
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The Clarion is published
weekly by the students of
Bethel College.
Bill Trollinaer editor
Laura Alden news editor
Mary Norton production editor
David Shelley copy editor
Peter Blomquist photo editor
Dawn Hart arts editor
Bruce Olsen sports editor
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Letters to the editor should be
sent to p.o . 91 by the Sunday
preceding publication.
Olsen ponders needs to Inject editorial competence Into the
Clarion
editorials
Clarion defends right to
express editorial opinions
In last week's vote on the use of escrow monies, students
overwhelmingly approved the scholarship fund proposed by Steve
Hoswell. This proposal was also the Clarion's choice (which we
supported in our March 11 editorial).
However, because we articulated our stance on the issue so
strongly, the entire editorial policy of the newspaper has suffered
severe criticism in the past few days. We understand the
disappointment experienced by supporters of defeated escrow
proposals, but we reject claims that we had no right to express
editorial opinion on this subject.
It demeans the character and quality of the Clarion to suggest that
our editorials be limited to milque-toast, society column subjects. We
feel we must do more for Bethel than patronize the coffee shop.
Editorial writing gives us a chance for thoughtful and conscientious
analysis of campus and national issues; it provides a medium to
counterbalance the routine news and feature copy with opinions and
constructive criticism. In our editorials, we don't claim inerrancy or
objectivity. The editorial statements are catalysts for thought and
action, nothing more.
This issue, of the right of editorial utterance, is actually one of
freedom, the freedom to use an editorial for the public good, the
freedom of the press. Granted, absolute freedom of the press is an
unattainable ideal, especially in a small private college where the
competition of media is minimal.
We do concede the right to expression on issues involving the
personalities of Bethel students. Our community is too small to
verbalize editorial evaluation, for example, of the characters and
qualifications of the student body presidential and vice presidential
candidates. We realize our responsibility to keep silent in these
concerns. In this, we are trying to separate people from issues.
Therefore, we will continue to print issue-oriented editorial
columns, hoping that readers will allow us, within the policy limits set
up for this year (see Sept. 10 Clarion) to act as unofficial keepers of the
student body conscience.
The constitutionally-guaranteed right of expression must be
preserved at every level for the success of democracy. The Bethel
Clarion may not impress the world with its journalistic expertise or its
scope of coverage, but it should be and will be representative of the
freedom guaranteed the press by the first amendment.
Students urged to take
seriously voting task
Student Senate elections are upon us once again. With the elections
comes the effort that students finding so hard, the effort of walking
down to the POs and casting a ballot for either of the
President/Vice-President tickets. The effort is one that we believe will
be well worth your time, for in voting you will be takng responsibility
for the way in which a good portion of your tuition money is spent next
year.
The money allotted to the Student Senate is no small amount;
therefore we urge you, the voter, to closely scrutinize the candidates.
We would also urge you to put some weight into the qualifications
of the vice-presidential candidates. The Vice-President's role includes
the task of moderating the Senate meetings along with the important
role of being the chairman of the Communications Board. This board
is responsible for overseeing and distributing money to Bethel's media
(of which the Clarion is a part).
Every spring the call is heard that Senate is not doing anything.
Here's your chance to get involved. Vote for the Senator or
President/Vice-President candidate that you think is capable of
getting the job done. All it takes is a walk down to the POs and an "X"
in the box of your choice.
Student leaders served
Bethel well this year
In the flurry of campus elections, old student body leaders often just
fade away. Pete Taylor and Dave Johnson deserve better. We would
like to thank them on behalf of the student body for their year-long
efforts as president and vice president.
Pete's determination to upgrade relations with the administration,
maintain equal representatioh on student-faculty committees and halt
enrollment was a valiant effort.
Dave's work with the Student Senate, Senate committees and
Communications Board is also commendable and appreciated.
But now it's time to move up out of the boiler room and into the real
world. Again, thanks, Pete and Dave, for your time and effort.
two
Despite a public confession
that he is not even a Baptist,
Bruce ("Oly") Olsen was appoint-ed
and elected Clarion editor for
the 1977-78 school year.
Bruce, a junior business major,
was appointed by the Communi-cations
Board and confirmed by
the Student Senate on March 8.
The vote was unanimous.
Three years of writing for the
paper, including one year as
sports editor, have given Bruce
ample journalistic experience.
Next year, this experience will be
augmented with the talents of
Holly Schmiess, news editor,
Suzi Wells, copy editor and
Nancy Naumenko, production
editor.
"I'm pleased with my staff,"
said Bruce. "They're dependable
and capable people."
Bruce felt motivated to apply
for the job out of a sense of
responsibility. "I was concerned
about maintaining the quality of
the pape r ," he said. "Since
nobody else was seriously inter-ested
in the editorship, I felt that I
should apply."
In addition to the responsibilty
angle, Bruce enjoys working on
the Clarion. "I especially like
seeing the finished product," he
said.
His aim is to "get as many
people reading the paper as
possible." Bruce plans minor
changes in graphic production.
The new Clarion editor attri-butes
his fame to two sources.
"IM basketball and Dorothy
(Drew) have made me what I am
today," he says confidently.
Bruce Olsen
to be editor
of 1977-78
Clarion
by Laura Alden
Riders evacuate Bethel rig after yet another harrowing trip
Rig drivers suffer in martyr role
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Taylor/Johnson
by Pete Taylor
Elections will soon be upon us again. The process has already
begun and you've probably seen candidates scurring around
attemptirig to get the necessary number of signatures on their
petitions.
Candidates chapel was last Tuesday, at which time you heard the
stands of president/vice-president tickets and were allowed time to
question the candidates. I would like to encourage you to become
aware of all the candidates, the issues, and then vote intelligently.
In February, Senate was in charge of chapel one day and the
question was asked, "What do you do with the $39,000 in your
budget? To answer that question, it must first be realized that the
budget is divided into eight sections. The section title and total annual
allotment are set forth below:
Student Salaries $ 4800
Supplies and Expense, Office 500
Travel — organized activities 750
Program expense — Clarion and Coeval 16500
Program expense — Senate activities 2000
Program expense — Contingency 13500
Equipment — Minor 250
Equipment — Major 750
TOTAL $39050
Student salaries are comprised of the stipends for President ($1200),
Vice President ($1000), Secretary ($650), and Treasurer ($650). Office
Supplies and Expense goes toward all operating expenses of our office
postage, copying charges, phone stationary and envelopes, etc.
Travel is pretty self-explanatory: it covers trips to Regents meetings
or such trips as the recent American Association of Evangelical
Students in Chicago.
Clarion and Coeval expenses include all publication and office costs
as well as the stipends for the personnel of both publications.
Program expense for the Senate, as well as the contingency budget,
pays for all programs Senate supports or projects it undertakes. Of the
two budgets, the largest lump sum is the escrow money. An
exhaustive list of expenditures from these accounts would be too
space consuming. If you would like to see the breakdown, or just look
at our book of expenditures, feel free to contact us (PO 93).
The entire amount of the minor capital budget went toward the
purchase of an electric typewriter for the Senate office. Prior to that we
had been borrowing the typewriter of Suzy Edwall, our secretary.
Finally, only $300 of the major equipment budget has been used
thus far this year. That amount was used to :lelp pay for the chapel
organ speaker and was committed by last year's Senate.
The next administration will use the remainder of this year's budget
in their first two months in office (April-May). In June the new budget
will go into effect with the beginning of the new fiscal year.
While I'm sure this has not been the most entertaining article you
have ever read in the Clarion, I hope it has been informative. It is good
for both Senate and yourselves to remember this is your money!
Outgoing vice-president and president, Dave Johnson and Pete
Taylor
by Dale E. Johnson
Bethel rig drivers are the least
appreciated martyrs in the world.
Obviously, there are going to be
some who will argue this point,
and still many more who are
going to feel sorry for rig drivers
because of what is said.
Let me say before I go any
further that I don't want any
sympathy and I won't listen to
any arguments. The purpose of
this article is to relate the facts as
I see them, and to try to enlighten
you as a community to the
problems we as Bethel rig drivers
face.
I feel it is only fair to mention a
few of the non-student related
problems the rig driver faces.
After observing Minnesota drivers
for three years, I can safely say
that they have to be the worst
drivers in the world.
This fact alone would tend to
discourage most people from
driving a rig. Yet the Bethel rig
drivers face Minnesota's road-hogging,
ramp-stomping, rig-ignoring
tactics every day with
hearty attitudes.
Another problem Bethel rig
drivers face is that of break-downs.
Although most drivers
have a knowledge of the use of
metrics (the tool of the future), a
majority of our breakdowns are
those that can only be handled by
mechanics who live with rigs.
This is an inconvenience to the
' driver because he must drive a rig
that he is not totally familiar with.
The student-related problems
are infinitely numerous for the
Bethel rig driver. One of the major
controversies on campus is cen-tered
around the problem of
Rosedale.
To blow Rosedale off the map,
as some have suggested, would
be an easy, yet unrealistic
solution to the problem. So, we
have tried to solve it by schedul-ing
certain times when the rig will
go in. That way, if a person
wanted to go to Rosedale, he say, "I was here first and you
could check his schedule and
can't take away my parking
plan to go at one of the times place."
listed. As you can see, life on the
We could also appease the
Bethel rig isn't as easy for the
other riders by not putting them
drivers as some would think.
through the painful ordeal of
Basically, I'm an optimistic fel-going
through the Rosedale
low.
parking lot. I'd like to say that things are
Our plan has all but backfired
going great with the Bethel rig.
and we have seriously considered
But, I'm afraid I can't say that. I
blowing Rosedale off the map. feel that there are a lot of ugly
Most students, I have observed, problems concerning the rig and
hate going into Rosedale at any
that no one has had the opportu-time
(unless they are going to get
nity to expose them. I can only
off there). hope that exposing them has not
Hence, the rig driver is show- left a bitter taste in anyone's
ered with moans and groans and mouth.
ejaculations from people like
It was not easy for me to
Paul Healy who say, "We go into express my feelings in an area so
Rosedale every time I ride the close to me, but now that I've
rig."
done it I feel much better about it.
Many students think that they
We as rig drivers have tried to
have the correct time and that the improve things. We've added
rig should leave when their express runs, music, limited
watches say it's time to go. The Rosedale stops, and countless
rig driver faces the problem of luxuries that most of you will
trying to leave on time when one probably never hear about. Now
watch says he is five minutes
it's your turn. Be on that rig a
late, while the other says he is
little early. Check to make sure
five minutes early. you are on a Rosedale run if you
Another problem is the stu- are going in. Don't ride the
dents who have cars. Some of express bus if you want to stop at
these idiots (mostly Minneso- HAR-MAR. Be considerate of the
tans) park where they are not rig drivers.
supposed to. This makes it next
If we work at this together, we
to impossible for the driver to can solve the many problems
maneuver around the Northland facing the Bethel rig and the rig
Nincompupes. When honked at drivers. We can only keep it
in a friendly gesture asking them running with your help. After all,
to move, they give a look as if to
the Bethel rig is people.
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Weaver tries to coerce yet another student into Business
department
Business dept. ranks
second in size at Bethel
by Bruce Olsen
someone who has the academic
and practical background to
Business is the fastest growing teach."
department at Bethel College. Weaver pointed out that ac-
Presently ranked number two in counting and marketing-finance
terms of majors (only the Biblical are two areas in the department
Studies department is larger), that need bolstering. Presently
business has approximately 200 the department has two part time
students with concentrations. teachers for accounting and one
With this tremendous growth in the finance area.
has come a number of problems. "My individual area is along the
Since the program began in lines of management, industrial
February, 1975, Bethel has hired relations, and personnel," said
only one full-time instructor. He Weaver. "Marketing and finance
is Robert Weaver, the chairman of are not my bag. I would like to
the business department. see a full-time professor in that
The growth of the department area also."
has been paralleled by the large
But many obstacles lie in the
increase in enrollment. When
path of obtaining good faculty for
asked if the business department the department. One of them is
is one of the reasons for Bethel's
that well qualified individuals are
increased enrollment, Weaver also well qualified in the busi-said,
"Well, I don't know if it's
ness world. An individual who
business itself. I think it's
can work in the business world
contributed to the overall growth. will generally go into that area
I'm sure some have come here in because the salaries are so much
the last year or two that wouldn't better.
have had we not had a business
But Weaver expressed satis-department."
faction with the present depart-
To cope with this growth, ment. "I think we offer a pretty
Weaver hopes that the adminis- nice range of courses. Most of
tration will be hiring some new, them are on par with the I
full-time faculty for the depart-think
we also have more flexibil-ment.
"I would like to see two full
ity since the classes are not so
time people besides myself,"
big."
said Weaver. "What we need is
The department is also plan-ning
for other improvements
besides faculty additions. Weaver
is planning to add to the number
of business related periodicals in
the LRC. "By fall, if not before,
we'll add around eight or so new
business-oriented periodicals,"
said Weaver.
This improvement would aid
students in writing research
papers for business. Presently
the LRC contains one periodical
that Weaver believes students
can use for pure business papers.
Other psychology periodicals aid
students in the motivational
areas, but only the Harvard
Business Review is used for
business purposes.
Another area of improvement is
in the area of grants from major
corporations. "We've made an
application for a grant that would
aid us in studying business
ethics," said Weaver. He believed
that with such a grant, the
department could hold a confer-ence
on business ethics in the
fall and a workshop in the spring.
The students that have gradu-ated
from Bethel with a business
degree have been very successful
so far. "As far as I know, the
students that graduated either
have a job or are in graduate
school," said Weaver.
The chairman of the depart-ment
also expressed concern
about future graduates from the
business department. "Down the
road it's the students that go out
of here that are going to make or
break the business department,"
said Weaver. "I would hope that
most of the students are interest-ed
in attacking human problems,
not just going into business for
the sake of business."
The growing pains that the
business department has experi-enced
in the past two years are
sure to continue for some time.
With good, qualified faculty hard
to come by and an increasing
number of students becoming
business majors, the department
is having a difficult time adjust-ing.
But with the progress the
department has made in its first
two years, the next two should
see an equal amount of improve-ment,
with new faculty and new
programs to add to the increasing
number of business majors.
Chapel Schedule
Monday
Music Chapel
Tuesday
Wayne Grudem
Wednesday
Pastor Spickelmier
Thursday
Women's Choir
Friday
Communion
In Hardwood Groves '
by Mark Troxel
I have a rather acerbic view of Sunday School, a view I cannot justify
but at the same time it is an attitude I cannot rid myself of. It all started
in my childhood, for Sunday School is one of my most painful
memories. Not even in the loneliest nook or cranny of my mind can I
find an experience as uncomfortable as the Sunday School situation.
First there are the physical properties of the room itself. Let's face
it. A Sunday School room could not be made to look any colder.
Cement block walls covered with a coat of faded green paint and a
blackboard that is consistently out of chalk hanging at rakish angle are
not exactly alluring — although some of the more affluent churches
supply their classrooms with maps of Paul's three missionary
journeys. This bleak and dismal atmosphere is augmented by several
rows of steel folding chairs that feel like they have just been pulled out
of a snow bank and are contoured so as to make even a flag-pole sitter
uncomfortable.
But there is also the leisure-suited, white-shoed teacher who is
simply not a good teacher. He asks questions that are so simple, no
one wants to be caught answering for fear of looking like one is proud
of one's self for knowing the answer.
Admittedly, this is incredibly cynical (who,. me?). But there are
reasons for my affinity for Sunday School. First and foremost is
simply that I am a bona-fide, card-carrying cynic. But another factor
has to be that I find it extremely difficult to function while I am in my
Sunday-go-to-meet'ns. I have always had an aversion to ties,
cuff-links, etc. and they put me in no mood to discuss. But the most
plausible explanation is that as "the preacher's kid" I was forced to go
to Sunday School all my life. It is no wonder that I hated to go. But not
only was I forced to go but the teacher always expected me to sit
attentively and to know all the answers. I did my best not to sit
attentively but I must have known at least some of the answers since
they always had me bat clean-up when we played Bible-baseball.
If I sound like I'm playing the martyr you're right. I am rather bitter
about being the "PK." 'n fact when I was younger I simply hated it. I
dreaded the first day of second-grade when Mrs. Miller went around
the room asking us all what our fathers did for a living. Everyone else
was normal. They were all sons and daughters of TV repairmen,
truck-drivers, loading-dock foremen, etc. David Connor's father was
even a fireman! I was afraid to let people know what my father did.
After all, who would want to come over to my house to play where they
thought ministers didn't like children or laughter contaminating the
cloistered confines of their living room.
But even worse was to let the teacher know. The Baptist minister in
a small rural town is big stuff and his children were expected to be four
years ahead of their class in maturity and intellect. It is a sad
statement on some of my elementary school teachers but every time
my passion for little-league or spit-wad throwing surpassed my ability
to spell, they thought it wise to remind me that my father was one of
the "best educated men in town" and that I should be doing better.
But the pressure of these expectations was present in father's
church too. From age four I was expected to be an adolescent mock-up
of the apostle Paul. If they would have known that it was in fact the
Drake brothers and I who kept throwing those paper airplanes out of
the balcony maybe they wouldn't have tried to make me an example for
their kids.
Maybe the worst result of these expectations was that it stunted my
spiritual growth. I was always expected to be able to give my
testimony on cue and after awhile it didn't make any difference to me
whether or not it was real as long as the ladies aid could be seen
nodding their heads. After being in a atmosphere where I was assumed
to be a young Martin Luther I couldn't help but start believing it. It
wasn't until I got to college and away from the preacher's kid situation
that I saw myself for the spiritual non-entity I truly was.
But being a PK wasn't all bad. We could go swimming in the
baptistery on Sunday afternoon (somebody had to test that water), and
after church on communion Sunday we got to drink all the leftover
grape juice. Still, somehow this didn't outweight the pressures
involved with being a preacher's kid.
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Johnson (left) and Carlson hope to increase social budget
More social activities,
student input proposed
Osgood (right) and Glenn propose new programs
Need for stronger Senate cited
by Tad Johnson
and Mark Carlson
We feel the most important
issue to address is the divided
and almost non-existent social
life on campus. Because next
year only one third of the
students will live on new campus,
some sort of action needs to be
taken to encourage more of a
"community" social life.
Our first proposal would be to
introduce a small activity fee, say
$5 per semester, to give the
campus coordinators a large
working budget.
With this increased budget,
social activities could expand at
Bethel to include bigger name
musical groups, drama groups, a
regular movie schedule, and
other activities which were previ-ously
ruled out because of cost.
Furthermore, these activities
would be free or else at a highly
reduced cost, and would elimi-nate
the problems associated
with the SAC cards. Hopefully,
this would be an incentive to
bring off-campus students to
more social activities as well as
those students to whom an
admission is a deterrent.
We would also hope to encour-age
more participative activities
rather than the large number of
spectator events. Finally, we
would examine the present open
dorm policies and attempt to
evaluate student opinion in this
area.
2) We feel the student body
does and should have a vested
interest in the Student Associa-tion.
Granted, the majority of
students leave most of the policy
action and initiation to student
leaders, but nevertheless, they
maintain an active interest in
Student Association responsibili-ties
such as the Clarion, Coeval,
the Campus Coordinator's office,
the Roster and Passages supple-ment,
the Public Action Commit-tee,
as well as the various minor
services performed.
We believe most Bethel stu-dents
support the idea of having
student leaders to communicate
their opinions to the faculty and
administration. We would hope
to develop stronger channels of
communication and feedback,
and furthermore, make students
more aware of the impact their
personal suggestions may offer.
3) As it stands now, we feel
the Student Senate and the
Student Association are not
using their voice to the extent
which is possible. In other words,
the Senate and student officers
should more actively use their
positions to offer suggestions
and common student opinions to
the administration.
Besides enacting policies on
such matters as stopwatches for
the girl's track team and giving
the cheerleaders an expense
account, the Senate should write
and publish in , the Clarion
resolutions stating specific stu-dent
positions on issues before
the regents and the administra-tion.
We applaud the idea of open
forums with the dean and hope to
expand the concept into ques-tions
and answers available for
regular Clarion publication.
Unmistakably, Bethel exists
because of students and for the
benefit of the students. A wide
open door to the administration
is certainly not too much to ask.
4) Although we are disappoint-ed
to see the seemingly unstop-pable
enrollment increases, we
are thankful for the assurance
from the administration that
crowded housing will not be a
significant problem next year.
The recently purchased Foun-tain
Terrace Apartments at Coun-ty
E2 and 35W will be used for
college housing and will alleviate
the crowded old campus and
townhouse conditions of this
year.
Certainly we hope to keep tabs
on how this situation is handled,
including an input into setting a
fair and proper fee for students
housed there.
We are confident that the
administration is doing every-thing
possible to obtain the
necessary permit for the new
dorms (or should we say the new,
new dorms).
5) Tad: I believe that my desire
to improve student life at Bethel
would help me to be a concerned
and active leader. To assist
Senate in accomplishing this
task, I can contribute an open-ness
and appreciation for each
student's ideas, while at the
same time providing organization
and goals for the Senate.
My past involvement in Senate
would help me to be a competent
president. As chairman of the
mandatory student-faculty com-mittee
membership. This will
leave more committee positions
open to non-Senate students. For
example, any student can have
input on the Curriculum Commit-tee,
which determines policy
concerning changes in curricu-lum.
Therefore, we would like to
see an efficient Senate working
towards meaningful goals, and
increased student input on com-mittees.
2) There has been a noticeable
lack of interest by the student
body in what the Senate does.
Part of the reason for this is
because of the lack of meaningful
goals.
One possible goal for the
upcoming year might be the
development of a used book
co-operative. Its purpose would
be to sell used books at a lower
profit than in our current book-store.
It could be operated entirely by
students, on an order-pickup
basis at the beginning and end of
each semester and interim.
Another part of student apathy
towards the Senate seems to be a
result of not knowing what
Senate is involved with. This can
be remedied through: 1) periodi-cal,
informal meetings with class
senators and their constituents,
2) a continuation and improve-ment
of the Public Relations
Committee which was formed
this semester.
3) The administration of Bethel
manifests itself in three ways:
1) the academic, 2) the social,
and 3) the spiritual. Students
presently have input on academic
policies on the student-faculty
committees. Two areas in which
students could have further input
regarding academic policies are:
1) the press for more full-time
faculty as opposed to many
current part-time faculty, and
2) the re-evaluation of the pass-fail
system.
Concerning the social life, we
would encourage more student
opinion regarding activities, and
try to work more closely with the
Campus Coordinators, who are
directly accountable to Senate.
We would also like to work
towards more student input and
participation in the men's and
women's intramurals program.
Although Senate's responsibil-ities
don't directly deal with the
spiritual atmosphere, we would
like to continue to support
Christian Service through mone-tary
appropriations.
4) The overcrowding problem
is, in our opinion, a result of poor
long-range planning by the ad-ministration.
Because Bethel was
refused a building permit for the
new dorm, the overload of
students will be absorbed in the
Fountain Terrace Apartment
housing. Although this is an
unfortunate situation, Senate's
power in this area is limited.
However, we see a few areas in
which students might be better
serviced in spite of the over-crowding.
We would like to work to-wards:
1) increased parking fa-cilities,
2) ensuring adequate
busing service for those students
housed in Fountain Terrace, and
3) the availability of more study
areas on weekends.
Next year's student enrollment
has been increased by 75. In
order to alleviate any further
overcrowding, the following
years' enrollment should not be
allowed to further increase.
(Some people have offered the
solution of barring all Nebraskan
students from Bethel,- but we
don't necessarily agree.)
5) David Osgood: First, as a
junior at Bethel I feel that I know
the school well. I am involved in
the varsity sports program (soc-cer
and golf), have had experi-ence
in dramatics, and have been
on the Dean's list in two of my
three years here.
Secondly, while not being
directly involved in Senate this
past year, I've attended several
second semester meetings and
have kept current as to the
workings of Senate. I've also had
student representative experience
in high school.
Thirdly, the job of president
consists primarily of public rela-tions
work whereas the vice-president
works more directly
with Senate. As a business major
and a political science major,
public relations is one of my
special interest areas and I plan
on pursuing a career in that field.
Kim Glenn: I am currently in
my third year on Senate. I have
been a member of the Public
Action Committee and of the
Judiciary Committee. I ran for
vice-president last year, winning
in the primaries, but losing in the
final election to Pete and Dave. I
have also been an R.A. this year,
and believe that this job has
increased my awareness of stu-dent
needs.
But finally, I believe that my
most valid qualification would be
that I am directly familiar with the
current workings of Senate, un-der
its new structure, and with
the needs and issues which will
be carried over into next year's
Senate.
Perhaps the main reason why
we feel that we could do a good
job is because we are both willing
to commit ourselves to whatever
is necessary to achieve the goals
of the student body:
by Dave Osgood and Kim Glenn
1) As we see it, the most
important issue the Student
Administration must address it-self
to is the restoration of power
and efficiency within the Senate
and the student body. This year's
Senate worked under a new,
smaller structure with many
changes in committees. Because
of this, efficiency was hampered
the first part of the year.
Only recently has Senate be-gun
to function smoothly. We
feel that efficiency is vital in
determining the amount of power
Senate can have.
Power has also been stagnant
in the student-faculty commit-tees.
We would like to see those
committees used to their fullest
potential. Last week our student
body voted to relieve senators of
special proje .cts committee, I
took an active leadership role and
came to an understanding of the
internal workings of the Senate.
Membership on a student-faculty
committee has increased my
perception of the working rela-tionship
between students and
faculty.
Mark: It's a difficult thing to
describe personal qualities other
than to say I have a desire to be of
service to Bethel students in a
position which can have an
impact. I guess I'd consider
myself a fairly serious-minded
person — a planner and contien-tious
about getting things ac-complished
on time.
As far as experience goes, I'm a
junior and have spent 2 1/2 of
those years at Bethel, being
active in Senate, the Public
Action Committee, and the Edu-cational
Policies and Academic
Affairs student-faculty commit-tees.
My experience at another pri-vate
college for a semester also
gives me added insight and a
unique outlook on strengths and
weaknesses I see at Bethel.
Together we feel that our areas
of concentration being from
totally different departments, and
our having diverse extra-curricu-lar
activities gives us a broad
outlook on the needs and opin-ions
of students.
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Brian Ruud
FREE ADMISSION Twin City
Crusade
St. Paul Civic
Center Theatre
Downtown St. Paul
Wednesday,
March 23
thru Sunday,
April 10
7:30 p.m. nightly
2:00 p.m. Sundays
10:00 a.m. teaching
Jim
Spillman
joins Brian nightly
and teaches in the
morning meetings.
AN EXPERIENCE YOU WON'T FORGET!
Arts Calendar
Visual Arts
March 25-26
Darrell Nelson, drawings, Bethel College Gallery
March 25-April 9 20th Century Master Prints, selection of
lithographs, etchings and screenprints;
Galleries 4, 5, 6, 7, Walker Art Center
March 25-30
Aspects of Realism, Art Building Gallery,
College of St. Catherine
Theatre
April 8-10
Godspell, National Touring Company at the
State Theatre (332-6575)
March 25-April 1 The Servant of Two Masters, 8 p.m., Park
Square Theatre, 400 Sibley St., St. Paul
March 25- April 17 Mrs. Warren's Profession,
Theatre-In-The-Round
March 25-April 1 The Crucible, Lakeshore Playhouse, 8 p.m., 522
Stewart Ave., White Bear Lake
Music
April 15
Gordon Lightfoot at Northrup Auditorium, 7:30
and 10:30 p.m., (373-2345)
April 16
"Doc" Severinsen at the Minneapolis
Auditorium, 8 p.m. (335-2125)
March 27
Janis Ian at the State Theatre, 8 p.m. (tickets at
Daytons)
March 27
Male Chorus at Seminary Chapel 8 p.m.
March 25
Candide, Minnesota Opera Company at the
Guthrie (221-0256)
April 17
Male Chorus at Edina Baptise 7 p.m.
April 24
Male Chorus at Central Free, Minneapolis 7 p.m.
May 1
Women's Choir at Redeemer Baptist, St. Paul 7
p.m .
May 8
Women's Choir at Calvary Baptist 7 p.m.
Dance
Hartford Ballet, Northrup Auditorium, 8 p.m.
(373-2345)
Don Redlich Dance Company, Northrup
Auditorium, 8 p.m. (373-2345)
'Moods'
scheduled
for April 15
by Becky Johnson
The "Moods of Music" will be
the thematic focus of an upcom-ing
Bethel tradition. In the
gymnasium on Friday, April 15
at 8 p.m., Moods will be
presented to Bethel, by Bethel.
Moods is a variety show,
though not a talent show, as was
February's Show Biz. It has the
added characteristic of a main
theme that deals with emotions
and hopefully sends the audience
home pondering the ideas.
Campus Coordinators Dan An-derson
and Karen Mann began
planning for this year's Moods in
February. Bethel's orchestra and
a live stage band will both
perform. A committee of 10 to 12
people will be organized in the
near future to come up with more
ideas after which they will
proceed to line up appropriate
musical numbers, skits, read
ings, etc.
Dan said, "We're still formulat-ing
ideas for the show and if
people are interested in partici-pating
they should feel free to
contact us."
Individual acts in the show are
practiced separately except for
one or two walk through rehear-sals.
Because of the number of
acts involved, props and scene
changes must be kept simple.
Dan expressed the desire that
appropriate dress for Moods
should be somewhat formal; no
jeans. He feels that this sugges-tion
for Snow Biz encouraged
dating. The admission charge is
uncertain at this time.
Band to perform
concert tonight
A melodic representation of the
troubadour's song, children
squabbling after play, cart creeks
and oxen hoofs, sounds of chicks
emerging from their shells, quar-reling
women at the marketplace,
a solumn processional through
the Great Gate of Kiev — each is
a musical paraphrase of "Pictures
at an Exhibition" by Modeste
Moussorgsky to be performed by
the Bethel Concert Band, Friday,
March 25, 8 p.m. in the college
gymnasium.
Directed by Professor Julius
Whitinger, the 65-piece ensemble
also will play concert music by
prominent American composers,
including Aaron Copeland's "Out-door
Overture," Paul Creston's
"Legend," and Percy Grainger's
"Lincolnshire Posy."
Assistant director Ken Vork
will lead the band in "The Tsar's
Farewell" by Rimsky-Korsakov
after which former Navy band-master
Dr. Whitinger will return
to the podium to direct a
contemporary setting of the
majestic naval hymn, "Eternal
Father, Strong to Save." Other
hymn arrangements for brass
choir and for the full ensemble
will be heard during the program.
The Band invites all to come —
a free will offering will be
received.
review
Rainbow's Colorful Caravan
boasts new faces / new skits
by Holly Schmiess
It was a rainy day last Friday, but as promised, Rainbow's Colorful
Caravan burst into opening night in the Bethel theatre. In its fourth
year of formation, it's clearer, cleaner, brighter than ever before. A
number of last season's hazy elements have crystalized into a far
superior display.
As distinct as the colors in a rainbow, yet as natural a blend are the
performers themselves. Three returning features are Jeff Miller's
lyric-tenor innocence, Duane Glader's strapping physique, and Mary
Frances Fiess's elastic face.
The rest are new: Juan Ramos lends a wistful quality with his deep
soft croon and quiet agility. Carol Anderson's versatile strong voice
can create any mood from seductive to silly to sincere. Sue Green's
trademark classic features and wispy figure contribute restraint and
grace.
Certainly not least is Martha Leander whose smooth comfort at the
piano and guitar almost do her out of any attention at all ; exceptional
talent that is to the show what a string is to beads.
More solo acts than last year lets the audience feel that by the time
the show is over, they know each performer personally. The girls'
complimentary blend is a pleasant surprise after hearing them
separately first. The guys didn't venture into a quartet, though with
Doc Rainbow the ranges would do well together barbershop style.
Mirth and melody are still paramount, but the program is built easily
around a three-part message, "Love God, love your brother, love
yourself." The usual obtrusive curtain between silly and sacred was
rent. Nonsense in flamboyant slapstick, and sense in serene folk
harmony cooperated to offer each idea frankly. The show's continuity
bloomed into a unity that spoke for itself.
If the message's universality can be tested by the variety of
resources it draws upon for expression, Caravan passes. It has
gleaned excerpts from Broadway shows, and contemporary gospel
rock musicals; part of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," a musical
setting of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, and tuneful
versions of the Flood and Good Samaritan stories (in this case
Comanchi Sam).
Doc himself, with polished reasoning, is a transition again this year
between program sections. But he gets into the acts, too, as a horse in
Comanchi Sam, and Noah in "You've Got to Have a Rudder on the
Ark," which won the prize with the audience.
All the acts are musical, which demands articulation and volume,
sometimes immediately after energetic stunts. Projection was
admirable, though larger halls and audiences will require that much
more.
The uncluttered stage is a great improvement. Instead of a forest of
microphones, there's just one that is slipped around gracefully.
A stack of painted building blocks is quickly reassembled like a
puzzle, into several sets including a medicine wagon, an ark, and the
word B-R-O-T-H-E-R. And when they aren't being looked at, they're
being sat upon! In proportion, though, to the size of the troupe (both
in numbers and inches), and the pinwheel action, the boxes could be
twice as big at least.
There were some anachronisms, but in a show like Caravan where
Duane Glader becomes a fuzzy pink poodle, who can say which ones
are deliberate? The rich velvet curtain backdrop seemed to outclass the
rough-hewn medicine wagon genre. Wouldn't it be nice if the stage
looked more like a peddler's platform? And the absurdity of Carol and
Mary Fran wailing blue-style in their Sun Bonnet Baby dress (yes, one;
they were Siamese twins!
The fantasia of costumes — especially the three street clothes
changes — was impressive, perhaps even unsettling considering the
show may thus limit its appeal to those who aren't hung-up materially
on either end of the financial spectrum.
Clouds or no, Rainbow's Caravan is good medicine for the rainy-day
blues. It's a full evening of entertainment, giving you a breathless
amount of color and action for one ticket. So much in fact it's enough
to make you feel guilty ... if it weren't so much fun for people on both
sides of the lights.
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The Aeolian Tuba
by Lorraine Eitel
Sitting there in their work clothes, smelling of stale lake water and
even staler fish, they had other things to do when he walked up. Busy
living and earning a living, they understood action. So he spoke of
action, his action, action that would change their activity.
He did not say, "Because you have shown great success in the
endeavor to which I call you . . ."
He did not say, "Your vocational aptitudes and interest surveys
show you would be successful in . . ."
He did not even say, "I can always use a couple a hard workers like
you guys."
But he said, according to his biographer Mark, "Follow me, and I
will make you to become . . ."
And they became becoming persons. Changing mindsets and
lifestyles, they were not the same people at the end that they had been
in the beginning. He made them to become fishers of men.
Sitting here in my work clothes, smelling of Flair pen, newsprint and
chalk dust, I have things to do, but I have learned to listen to a familiar
voice, a voice that still needs to call.
He does not say, "Because of your great intellectual prowess,
exceptional spiritual discernment and steadfast moral power . . ."
He does not even say (thought it may be true), "Spiritually, you've
come a long way, baby."
He says, "Continue to follow me, and I will continue to make you to
become . . ."
But becoming means growth, and growth means change, and
changes costs a lot. It costs admitting that I'm still not perfect the way
I am — that things in me need to be different. Change means seeing
things in a new way. And that new sight will make demands on me, on
my time and on my savings account. Change, exhilarating as it is, can
be very painful.
Yet he calls again as he called before and will call again and again,
"Follow me. I will make you to become the kind of person I need. I
have things for you to do."
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"The Messiah" 'Young and Restless'
to be performed upset no I 'Probes'
Selections from Handel's "The
Messiah" will be presented in a
chapel concert Monday. Linda
Herrmann will direct the choir
accompanied by a string ensem-ble
and harpsichord in the
Baroque style. Soloists will be
Jennifer Woods, soprano, Dan
Petersen, baritone, and Paul
Kling, tenor.
ISA dinner
tomorrow night
Be a foreigner. Improve your
cultural sensitivity. Learn about
other countries by tasting their
food, talking to their people,
seeing their uniqueness. Come to
International Night, presented by
Bethel's own ISA. The time is
Saturday night, March 26, 6:00-
9: 30 p.m. in the field house. The
cost is $2.50 for reserved tickets,
$3.00 at the door.
English dept.
to host coffee
Next Tuesday at 3 p.m.,
the English department is host-ing
a coffee in the Royal Oak
Room for anyone interested in
the English field. Speakers will
focus their remarks on post-graduation
options for those
interested in English-related ca-reers.
SMP, con't. from p. 1
and personal donations. The
present financial status of the
organization is $6,350 out of the
$9,500 goal.
According to Kathy, chapel
support was great at the begin-ning
of the year, but declined
substantially during the course of
the year. However, it is currently
picking up.
Students currently involved in
this year's SMP project are:
Nancy Ahlberg, Dave Anderson,
Judy Brundage, Marty Dennison,
Tim Doten, Greg Hanson, Linda
Heeren, Cindy Johnson, Dan K.
Johnson, Greg Jones, Gretchen
Kaiser, Rick Knopf, Sara Larson,
Dave Linde, Doug Magnuson,
Bob Merritt, Neil Meyer, Doug
Mounce, Terry Rosell, Holly
Schmiess, and Sue Wahl.
Not all of them have been
accepted by the mission boards;
all must yet procure visas,
passports, and shots; many have
yet to finish raising their support.
Yet they are excited at the
prospect whether the country
involved be Canada, Japan, Mexi-co,
Alaska, Ecuador, Philippians,
Thailand, Colombia, Brazil, Puer-to
Rico, or the United States.
Their reasons for and attitudes
about going appear to be similar
to that of Greg Hanson, who will
be going to British Columbia
under the American Indian Mis-sion.
"I'm not positive I want to
go into missions yet, but I believe
that God would have me explore
it — so I would like to get a 'taste'
of a cross-cultural mission exper-ience."'
by Dan Erickson
When this issue of the Clarion
went to press the first round of
playoffs had been completed.
There were some hard-fought,
close games played and a couple
of startling upsets.
The most amazing game played
had to be the victory of the Young
and Restless over Probes, Gigs
and Dozers. The two teams had
played the week before and the
Young and Restless had gone
down to defeat by 37 points. This
time it was a different story. Jim
Schultz dropped in everything he
fired up and ended with 23.
Hallstrom had 15 and "Smerg"
punched in 12. Final score:
56-48.
The Big Apple edged Wink's
Finks 50-49 in a fairly close
game. Tom West fired 17 points
over the Finks, while Hepburn
added 13. Mack Nettleton had 13
for the losers.
The Pink Panthers, the stuff
League's fourth place team
crushed the first place Charlie's
Angels' hopes with a 52-48
thrashing. Mark Norlander and
John Merritt tallied 16 and 13
points respectively.
That awesome Upper Volta
bunch rolled over another oppo-nent,
this time True Grunt, 59-43.
by Linda Dowden
The Bethel girls track team had
an outstanding meet last week-end
at the St. Olaf Open, with
everyone on the team setting
their own personal record in at
least one of their events.
The meet was an invitational
with eight other schools held last
Friday at St. Olaf College. The
participating schools were Man-kato,
River Falls, Eau Claire, St.
Roger Gustafson picked up 15
while Greg Wilcox slammed
home 14, the Phantom popped in
11 and Erickson didn't score. Al
Jones got 20 points for True
Grunt. On Wednesday night, the
Northwest Upper Volta All-Stars
(Again) played the Young and
Restless and the Pink Panthers
played the Big Apple. On Thurs-day,
the Stuff Division winner
played the Swish Division winner
and the 1977 open league "A"
champion was crowned.
In one "B" league game the
score was Johnnies 39, and the
whole National Butcher's Associ-ation
team 43. Carrigan scored all
but four of the NBA points. These
decisive points were added by
Frank Bahr, Dave Laurion and
Herman.
Thee Union beat Ad Nauseum
47-45 in a dramatic contest. Whitt
gunned in 17 and Ronn Kreps
helped out with 12. Ad Nauseum
was kept in the game until the
final seconds through the heroic
efforts of David Jorgenson who
finished with 21.
All the IM ballplayers in both
"A" and "B" leagues owe a great
deal to the hard work, patience
and commitment of Bill Whitta-ker,
Wally Brown and Tim Hau-gen.
Their supervision and orga-nization
added a lot to a great
season of basketball and fun.
Olaf, Gustavus, Hemline, Augs-burg,
Macalester and Bethel.
As a team they finished in fifth
place overall, with Eau Claire
beating us by only one point to
take fourth place.
Six new Bethel records were
set in the various events. Carol
Anderson took first place in the
high jump, tying the previous
record of 5 ft. and making it her
personal best. Sheryl Meyer
placed fourth in the same event.
This is the initial interview with
the defending Study Day Clarion
Golf Epic Champions, Paul Healy
and Bill Trollinger.
Clarion: Tell us about last year's
victory.
Champs: The history books
record that we brought Como
Golf Course to its knees with a
pair of blistering 90s. But let's
talk metagolf. On Trollinger's
final shot of the day, an incred-ible
185-yard pitching wedge on
hole no. 18, a voice, indeed Plato
himself, could be heard saying,
"Yes. That's the `form'."
Clarion: What about complaints
that have been voiced concerned
alleged handicap-fixing?
Champs: Talk to the handicap
committee.
Clarion: You are the handicap
committee.
Champs: No comment.
Clarion: What about this year's
tourney? Any changes?
Champs: Yes. First, we have
added a faculty member to the
Freshman Jan Engel set a
new record in the shot put of
37'5", which gave her a second
place in the meet and qualified
her for the regional upcoming
Meet.
Denise Egge broke two previ-ous
school records, one in the
600 yard run and one in the mile
run. In the mile run she smashed
the record by 21 seconds and
pla.ced third. She also took fourth
place in the 600 yard run with a
handicap committee: Willard
Harley, who unfortunately will be
out of town that week. And we
won't accept his T.A.
The second change is some-thing
we cannot control. Appa-rently,
the greens committee at
Como is contemplating some
major changes on the course in
an attempt to make it more
challenging for us. Frankly, they
were embarrassed at how we
destroyed the course last year.
A minor change this year is
that Chuck Haaland won't be in
the tourney. If you remember
correctly, Haaland shot a pair of
Bicentennial 76s en route to a
masterful 152.
Clarion: Summarize your strong
and weak points.
Champs: Only half of that
question deserves response.
With the Healy incredibly-strong
long game and the Trollinger
ability to one-putt from anywhere
on any green, we are the most
awesome team since . . .
record 1 :35.
Both of the relay teams also set
new records. The "sprint" relay
team with Cheryl Staurseth,
Sheryl Meyer, Cathy Duehn and
Bobbie Hersch placed sixth,
taking three seconds off the old
record.
The mile relay team took two
seconds off the previous record
placing fifth, with Gail Anderson,
Debi Grosklags, Shari Reasoner
and Denise Egge.
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Women's track team breaks 6 Bethel records
Senior Bill DeVoe will once again pace the netmen.
Bethel netmen expected
to win conference
A strong forehand shown by sophomore Mark Norlander
by Bruce Olsen
The perennial Tri-state Confer-ence
tennis champions began
practice this month led by first
singles champion Bill DeVoe.
DeVoe, a senior, will be playing
in his fourth straight year in the
first singles position.
According to Coach Paul Rea-soner,
the conference champs
will once again capture the team
title. "We should win," said
Reasoner. "I think we are tougher
than we were last year. We have a
lot more depth than we did last
year."
Depth is the strength of this
year's team, as Reasoner pointed
out that there are good strokers
all the way down to the twelfth
man.
Following DeVoe in the second
singles position will be freshman
Steve Brown from Marion, Iowa.
He will be followed by Greg
Kuntz, returning from last year's
squad to play third singles.
The fourth through sixth posi-tions
are still questionable, but
Coach Reasoner has made early
season placements. In the fourth
position is sophomore Mark
Norlander, with freshman Peter
Nelson playing fifth and Jim
Grant playing sixth.
Other players that may chal-lenge
for the top six positions
will be junior Greg Addington and
freshmen Dan Runion and Dave
Fredericks.
Reasoner defended the charge
that the Tri-state Conference is
an easy conference to win.
"Some people think it's an easy
conference, but we had a tough
time winning last year," said
Reasoner.
As for the upcoming season,
the coach had this to say: "This
will be our toughest year for dual
meets. We will be playing Gusta-vus
for the first time this year
along with the 'U'. The roughest
thing will be that most of our
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by Greg Smith
A group of Bethel women have
responded to the arrival of spring
and enlisted their arduous efforts
in a traditional activity commonly
referred to as women's softball.
Karyl Frye is in her first year as
coach of the Bethel women's
softball team and comes to
Bethel from Battle Creek Junior
High School in St. Paul, where
she previously coached grades
seven through nine in volleyball,
basketball, softball, gymnastics
and speedball.
Academically, Miss Frye re-ceived
her B.A. and M.A. from
Mankato and has done doctoral
work at Florida State in the area
of sports psychology. A native of
Truman, Minn., Coach Frye
brings with her fourteen years of
league softball experience on
both state and regional champi-onship
teams.
This year the Bethel diamond-ettes
are young and coach sees it
as a building year. Of this year's
sixteen member team, only six
are upperclassmen, and five of
those six are sophomores.
Among the freshmen, there are a
few cases of limited or no
previous experience and Coach
Frye has thus placed an empha-sis
upon the basic fundamentals
of softball.
The returning members of this
year's team will provide a good
amount of experiential depth for
Coach Frye to build around.
According to Coach Frye, Cindy
Martin will fulfill the pitching
duties with poise and experience
and will throw to her equally as
experienced battery-mate Ruth
Moser, the Bethel catcher.
Vicki Wright, a new member to
the team, will provide backup
pitching as well as sound fielding
in the outfield. Along with Vicki
in the outfield will be junior Cathy
Olson and in the infield, sopho-more
Cindy Ramm.
Coach Frye has been im-pressed
with the amount of hard
work, enthusiasm, and desire of
the various members of the team.
Three times a week the Bethel
women work out in the batting
cage and Coach Frye hopes that
she can, in the future, develop
the potential for base stealing
and heads-up ball that those
members of the team possess.
The Bethel team begins their
competition on April 21 with
other teams from Gustavus, the
University, Northwestern, Augs-burg,
Carleton, St. Olaf, St.
Mary's, Concordia, St. Benedict's
and Normandale.
Currently Bethel women do not
compete in any form of confer-by
Greg Kuntz
The Bethel men's track team
finished first and set a new
school record in the four-lap relay
at an unofficial Tri-state confer-ence
indoor meet at Mankato last
Saturday. It was the first time
Bethel won a Tri-State conference
meet.
Runners Nate Allen, Kevin
Shenk, Gene Blair, and Mike
Bogard teamed up for a time of
1 :13.9, which shattered one-month-
old record of 1 :15.4 set at
Mankato by Blair, Shenk, Allen,
and Greg Held.
The Royals had a great time
winning almost every running
event, and for the first time in the
school's history, had five mem-bers
place in the pole vault. Phil
LaGesse, who didn't compete the
previous week due to injury,
captured first in the pole vault
with an even 12'. Paul Rasmussen
placed second behind LaGesse.
Doug Hage ended up fourth, with
Dan Dye and David Johnson tying
for fifth.
There were several double
winners: Larry Caldwell won the
mile and two-mile running events
with respective times of 4:29.8
and 9:59.5.
Curt Brown won the 600 and
the 880 yard dash in 1 :15.4 and
2:05.4 respectively.
The other double winner for
Bethel was Nate Allen, who
captured top honors in the 60
yard dash and the 300 yard dash
in respective times of 6.4 and
32.6.
Jim Timp took fourth in the
mile, Mike Bogard finished third
in the 60 yard dash, and Dave
ence but Coach Frye hopes that
within the next few years a league
will be established for women's
sports as well as for men's.
So far in the scheduling, only
three contests are at home and
the remainder are all to be played
on the road. Several of the away
games are doubleheaders which
will provide the Bethel women
with a full season of play and
experience. The dates of the three
home games are May 4, May 9,
May 11, and will all be played at
Perry Park on County Road E2
and New Brighton Road.
For a great break from that
monotous game of procastina-tion
of studies and the marvelous
benefits to be accrued thereof,
plan ahead to attend and support
women's softball in what proves
to be a successful season.
Clapp finished only two-tenths of
a second behind Curt Brown in
the 600.
Dave Thiessen took fifth in the
880. Gene Blair captured first in
the 440 event in 52.7. He also
took fourth in the 300 yard dash.
Graydon Held and Kevin Shenk
captured second and fourth re-spectively
in the 440.
The Royals were winning the
1000 yard run for awhile, but Jim
Timp finally ended up in second,
while Dave Clapp took fourth.
The mile relay team of Graydon
Held, Gene Blair, Clapp, and
Shenk was leading their event
when Blair's leg tightened while
he was running his segment of
the race.
Coach Gene Glader said, "He
ran in the 300 shortly before the
mile relay. It was soon for him to
run again."
Mark Neufeld finished fourth in
the 60 yard high hurdles and Greg
Held took fifth in the 176 yard
intermediate hurdles.
In other field events Steve
Carrigan hurled the shot 44'2" to
take second and John Van Loon
leaped 42'1" to take second . in the
triple jump. Dan Hogan captured
third in the high jump.
"It was a very nice win," saia
Coach Glader. "We've been aim-ing
for this one all year. We were
thankful for healings and the
team is looking pretty good now.
We'll be favored for the outdoor
Tri-state meet and I hope to win
that one too."
The Royals close out their
indoor season tomorrow after-noon
at the Macalester College
fieldhouse against Macalester
and possibly St. Thomas.
Martin to lead Bethel softballers
games are on the road."
When asked if the team is
capable of winning a Minnesota
Intercollegiate Athletic Confer-ence
(MIAC) title, Reasoner said a
flat out, "No, no way." He
pointed to the power of Gusta-vus,
along with good teams like
St. John's and St. Olaf. "We'd be
in the upper third," said Reasoner
on his team's chances in the
MIAC.
The team's first match will be
April 13 against the University of
Wisconsin at River Falls. The
match will be here and begin at 3
p.m.
Trackmen take first in
conference meet
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